Engelhard von Langheim

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Engelhard von Langheim (* before 1140; † 1210 in Klosterlangheim ) was a German Middle Latin church writer, Cistercian monk , prior of Langheim Abbey and abbot of another (not known) monastery.

life and work

Engelhard was educated at the cathedral school in Bamberg and entered the Cistercian monastery in Langheim. From 1189 to 1200 he was abbot of an Austrian monastery, then again a monk in Langheim monastery until his death. He was friends with Abbot Erbo II of the monastery checkinging (1168-1187), who promoted his Middle Latin writings.

Engelhard wrote a vita for Mathilde von Andechs (also: Mechtild von Dießen ), as well as a miracle book for the nuns of the Wechterswinkel monastery . He thus belongs to the ranks of other authors of the monastic example, miracle and vision literature of the Middle Ages such as Caesarius von Heisterbach , Konrad von Eberbach and Herbert von Clairvaux (Liber miraculorum et visionum).

Works

  • History of the heyligen Junckfrawen Mechtildis ([died] 1160), translated from Latin by Philipp Dobereiner (1535–1577), Dillingen 1574; Reprint ed. by Manfred Knedlik, Amsterdam 2002
  • Hans D. Oppel, The Exemplary Miracles of Engelhard von Langheim. Investigation and annotated text edition (partial print) , Diss. Würzburg 1976

literature

  • Hermann Watzl , Engelhard von Langheim. Questions about a personality, in: Cistercienser Chronik 76, 1969, pp. 1-19
  • Hans D. Oppel, Engelhard von Langheim, in: author lexicon 2, 1980, Sp. 550–554
  • Gabriela Kompatscher-Gufler , Herbert von Clairvaux and his Liber miraculorum. The short version of an anonymous Bavarian editor. Investigation, edition and commentary , Bern 2005

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personal data
SURNAME Engelhard von Langheim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engelhardus de Langheim; Engelhardus Langheimensis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Middle Latin church writer, Cistercian monk and prior of Langheim Abbey
DATE OF BIRTH before 1140
DATE OF DEATH 1210
Place of death Klosterlangheim