Gallus Kemli

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Gallus Kemli (born November 18, 1417 in St. Gallen ; † February 12, 1480 or 1481 ) was a Benedictine monk in the St. Gallen monastery .

Life

Gallus Kemli was born in Sankt Gallen and was handed over to the St. Gallen Monastery in 1428. There he attended school and learned to read and write in German and Latin.

In 1441 he was ordained a priest. After a dispute with the abbot and the brothers, he left the abbey in 1446 and led an erratic wandering life in monasteries in the south-west of the empire. After his return to St. Gallen in 1470, he fell out with Abbot Ulrich Rösch , so that he left the monastery again. Around 1480 he returned to the Abbey of St. Gallen and was placed in monastery custody by the abbot, in which he presumably died.

Kemli wrote books all his life and owned a sizeable library. In addition to theology in Latin, he was also interested in texts in German: sayings, jokes and ridicule, medical prescriptions and astrology, and he stuck early colored woodcuts in his books. He put on a catalog of his books in which he recorded his book ownership in detail. Despite his unsteady life, most of his books have survived, as the St. Gallen monastery kept them after his death. Since a comparison with the Zurich Central Library, most of his manuscripts are now stored in the St. Gallen Abbey Library and digitally facsimile as e-Codices . Further works can be found in Frankfurt am Main (city and university library Ms. germ. Qu. 13), in Trier (city library cod. 5), in Wolfenbüttel (Herzog August library Ms. Blankenburg 305a) and in the Bern burger library (cod . B 32).

literature

  • Martin Germann: Spolia from four medieval private libraries in Switzerland: in the libraries of Bern, Sankt Gallen and Zurich, as well as in the Musée historique de La Neuveville (Bern) ; in: Le biblioteche private come paradigma bibliografico , Atti del convegno internazionale Roma 2007, a cura di Fiammetta Sabba; Bulzoni editore, Roma 2008 ( ISBN 978-88-7870-329-2 ), p. 255-276 & ill. 1-6; on Gallus Kemli's library, see pp. 261–266.
  • Author Lexicon. The German literature of the Middle Ages, 2nd ed., Vol. 4, pp. 1107–1112
  • Catalog of dated manuscripts in Switzerland in Latin from the beginning of the Middle Ages to 1550, Vol. 3, edited by Beat von Scarpatetti et al., 1991, pp. 290-291.
  • Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, Vol. 3, 1992, Sp. 1333f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Ochsenbein: Cultura Sangallensis ; Verlag am Klosterhof, St. Gallen 2000 ( ISBN 3-906616-51-7 ), pp. 206–230, esp. Pp. 214–215, there note 29 the compilation of the 30 codices written by Kemli.
personal data
SURNAME Kemli, Gallus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Benedictine monk
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1417
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1480 or 1481