Fridugisus

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Fridugisus († 834 in Tours ; also Fridugis or Fredegisus of Tours ) was Arch Chancellor of Emperor Louis the Pious from 819 .

He was abbot of Saint-Martin de Tours from 804 as the successor of his teacher Alcuin , and from 820 also abbot of Saint-Omer (Sithiu) and head of the local canon community . The Gesta Abbatum Sithiensium des Folcuin von Lobbes , which originated in the 10th century, describe his activity as abbot of Sithiu in an extremely negative way, as there were evidently conflicts between the (usually lay) monks and the priestly group of canons who were responsible for the monastery neighboring Marienkirche worked and were preferred by Fridugis.

Fridugis was active at the Palatinate School of Charlemagne and was involved in various theological, philosophical and political controversies, especially against Agobard . Although he followed the scriptures closely in his teaching, he advocated the thesis of the existence of nothingness .

Works

  • De substantia nihili et tenebrarum (after 804; first printing: Lucca 1761)

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SURNAME Fridugisus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fredegisus of Tours
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Arch Chancellor of Emperor Ludwig the Pious
DATE OF BIRTH 8th century
DATE OF DEATH 834
Place of death Tours