Ellinger from Tegernsee

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Ellinger von Tegernsee (* around 978 in Bavaria, † May 13 (or February 5 ) 1056 in Tegernsee ) was a monk and twice abbot in Tegernsee Monastery .

Life

Ellinger was born to a noble family in Bavaria around 978 and received his education as a student of Froumund in Tegernsee Monastery (where he became a monk before 997) and in Sankt Ulrich und Afra (Augsburg) . From 1012 to 1016 he stayed in Würzburg and Bamberg . In Tegernsee he was promoted to abbot by Heinrich II in 1017 on the farm of Abbot Godehard of Niederaltaich . He renovated the monastery economically and led it to great artistic and scientific prosperity. So he renewed the school, the library and the scriptorium and worked as a copyist and illuminator himself . In 1026, however, he had to abdicate because his confreres opposed his attempts at reform after the monastery reform of Gorze with a strict return to the Rule of Benedict in the sense of the synods of Aachen . In 1031, at the instigation of Abbot Godehard von Niederaltaich, he was reinstated as abbot in Tegernsee and briefly as abbot in Benediktbeuern . Ellinger now worked on the rebuilding of the monastery in Benediktbeuern . His reforms again provoked resistance from confreres and the clergy. The Freising Bishop Nitker therefore deposed him in 1041 without giving any further reasons. Ellinger now lived in Niederaltaich Monastery , where he continued to produce manuscripts and work as an illuminator. He was able to spend the last years of his life in Tegernsee again.

Works

Pages written and painted by Ellinger himself from a collection of texts by Beda Venerabilis , some smaller Latin poems, etc. have been preserved. a. Greetings poems for Emperor Heinrich II and letters. Whether that sucked. Ellinger Gospels from his hand is uncertain.

Canonization

In 1218 Ellinger's bones were raised in honor of the altars and transferred to the Vitus altar in the abbey church of the Tegernsee monastery. Ellinger was officially beatified in 1236. His feast day is May 13th.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard Schmeidler: Abbot Ellinger von Tegernsee, 1017-1026 and 1031-1041: Investigations into his letters and poems in clm 19412 and the manuscripts written by him. CH Beck, 1938.
  2. ^ Ellinger Gospel Book Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB Clm 18005, Tegernsee, around 1035-1040)
  3. ^ Ellinger von Tegernsee In: Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon .
predecessor Office successor
Burchard Abbot of Tegernsee
1017-1026 		Albin
Reginbert II (provost) Abbot of Benediktbeuern
1031-1032 		Gothelm
Albin Abbot of Tegernsee
1031-1041 		Altmann
personal data
SURNAME Ellinger from Tegernsee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Blessed of the Middle Ages and Abbot of Tegernsee
DATE OF BIRTH at 978
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1056 or February 5, 1056
Place of death Tegernsee