Ernst Tremp

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Ernst Tremp (born October 2, 1948 in Näfels ) is a Swiss historian of medieval history. From 2000 to 2013 he was the Abbey Librarian of St. Gallen.

life and work

He is a citizen of Schänis and Näfels and grew up in Näfels. After graduating from the college in Stans , he studied medieval history, historical auxiliary sciences and theology at the University of Friborg in Switzerland from 1968 and received his doctorate in 1980 with a thesis on the Cistercian monastery Altenryf (Hauterive) in the High Middle Ages. During his studies he was at the Sorbonne in 1974/75 with a grant from the French government . From 1981 to 1984 he worked at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH) in Munich with a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation and then became the executive secretary of the Medieval Institute at the University of Freiburg. In 1986 he completed his habilitation through Thegan von Trier, in 1987 he became a private lecturer and in 1993 he was adjunct professor.

From 2000 to 2013 he was the Abbey Librarian (Director) of the Abbey Library in St. Gallen , succeeding Peter Ochsenbein . In addition, he kept his titular professorship for medieval history at the University of Freiburg. He participates in various scientific committees at home and abroad, including a. since 2010 in the central management of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in Munich.

He deals with early medieval intellectual and cultural history and historiography , monasticism and nobility in the high Middle Ages, with Cistercians and Premonstratensians in western Switzerland. In 1995 he published the Viten Ludwigs des Pious von Thegan and Astronomus in the MGH . He is concerned according to its activity mainly with topics in the area of the monastery of St. Gall and its library, especially with the Plan of Saint Gall and the St. Gallen monastery stories ( Casus Sancti Galli ) Ekkehard IV. He new to the MGH 2020 has published.

Ernst Tremp is married to the medieval historian Kathrin Utz Tremp (* 1950), private lecturer and honorary doctorate from the University of Bern. They have two grown sons.

Fonts

  • Liber donationum Altaeripae. Cartulaire de l'abbaye cistercienne d'Hauterive (XIIe – XIIIe siècles) , Edition critique par Ernst Tremp, traduit de l'allemand par Isabelle Bissegger-Garin (= Mémoires et documents publiés par la Société d'histoire de la Suisse romande, 3e série, t. XV), Lausanne 1984
  • Studies on the Gesta Hludowici imperatoris of the Trier choir bishop Thegan , Writings of Monumenta Germaniae Historica 32, 1988
  • The tradition of the Vita Hludowici imperatoris of Astronomus , studies and texts of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica 1, 1991
  • Thegan, Die Taten Kaiser Ludwigs (Gesta Hludowici imperatoris) / Astronomus, Das Leben Kaiser Ludwigs (Vita Hludowici imperatoris) , editor and translator E. Tremp, MGH Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum separatim editi 64, Hanover 1995
  • Monks as Pioneers: The Cistercians in the Middle Ages , Swiss Pioneers of Economy and Technology, Vol. 65, Meilen 1997, 2002 (2nd edition)
  • Walahfrid Strabo, Vita sancti Galli / The life of St. Gallus , Latin / German. Translation by Franziska Schnoor, notes and epilogue by E. Tremp (Reclams Universal-Bibliothek), Stuttgart 2012
  • Vita sancti Galli vetustissima. The oldest biography of St. Gallus , Latin / German, ed. from the St. Gallen Abbey Library, St. Gallen 2012
  • The St. Gallen monastery plan - facsimile, accompanying text, inscriptions and translation , St. Gallen 2014
  • Ekkehart IV., St. Galler Klostergeschichten (Casus sancti Galli) , ed. and over. by Hans F. Haefele (✝) and Ernst Tremp, with the collaboration of Franziska Schnoor, MGH Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum separatim editi 82, Wiesbaden 2020

literature

  • Franziska Schnoor, Karl Schmuki, Silvio Frigg (eds.): Showcase St. Gallen Abbey Library. Farewell gift for monastery librarian Ernst Tremp. Verlag am Klosterhof, St. Gallen 2013, ISBN 978-3-905906-07-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Tremp: St. Gallen versus Zurich: a three-hundred-year dispute over cultural assets. In: Stanser Student , Volume 59, 2002, pp. 1–21 (pdf)
  2. ^ Freiburger Nachrichten, April 8, 2000
  3. ^ University of Bern, December 2, 2013
predecessor Office successor
Peter Ochsenbein Abbey librarian of St. Gallen
2000–2013 		Cornel Dora
personal data
SURNAME Tremp, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Näfels