Gallus Oehem

Gallus Oehem gives Abbot Martin von Weißenburg the chronicle of Reichenau, a Freiburg manuscript

Gallus Oehem - also Öhem or uncle - (* around 1445 in Radolfzell ; † September 12, 1521 in Constance ) was a clergyman and chronicler of the Reichenau monastery .

Life

His father was an imperial notary and administrator of the Reichenau monastery. Gallus was born an illegitimate son and legitimized in 1464. After attending the Latin school in Ulm , he studied from 1461 to 1463 at the University of Freiburg and from 1468 to 1469 at the University of Basel . Afterwards he was assistant priest in Innsbruck , in 1473 chaplain in Singen , in 1480 in Radolfzell and after 1492 in Reichenau monastery. In 1505 he received an altar benefice at the Konstanz cathedral .

Encouraged by Abbot Martin von Weißenburg , he wrote the chronicle of the Reichenau monastery up to the year 1453 , probably based on the model and contemporary Albrecht von Bonstetten . The chronicle consists of an abbot list and the abbots' descriptions as well as a coat of arms collection with 503 coats of arms and is one today the important sources on the history of the Reichenau monastery. Several copies were made of the manuscript . He produced the color-illustrated Freiburg manuscript of the Freiburg University Library , signature UB Freiburg Hs. 15 , as a fair copy.

He is probably also the author of a Konstanz bishop's chronicle, Stiftsarchiv St. Gallen , signature Cod. 339 , which Jakob Mennel used for his diocese chronicle. The attribution of the so-called Reichenauer Reichschronik , preserved in the Austrian National Library , call number Cod. 2927 , can be considered certain.

Works and their editions

Chronicle of Reichenau , colored manuscript, Reichenau, 1505–1508 digitized
Karl August Barack (editor): Gallus Oheims Chronik von Reichenau , Stuttgart, 1866 digitized
Karl Brandi (editor): The Chronicle of Gallus Öhem , 1893 digitized
Harald Drös (editor): The Book of Arms of Gallus Öhem , 1994

literature

Markus Müller: The late medieval diocese historiography , 1998, (p. 51 ff.)
Peter Paul Albert : On the life and family history of Gallus uncle. In: Alemannia (Freiburg i. Br.), 25, 1898, pp. 258-262 in the Internet Archive
Peter Paul Albert: On the life story of the Reichenauer chronicler Gallus Oheim. In: Freiburger Diözesan-Archiv, 34, 1906, pp. 259-265 in the Internet Archive
Wilhelm Martens: A newly discovered chronicle of the diocese of Constance. In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine, Volume 52 (1898), pp. 23-53 in the Internet Archive
Felix Heinzer : The Reichenauer incunabula of the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe. An unknown chapter of Reichenau library history. In: Bibliothek und Wissenschaft, Volume 22 (1988), pp. 1–127 ( digitized version )

Web links

Oheim, Gallus: Chronicle of Reichenau, shelfmark: Karlsruhe 1303. Badische Landesbibliothek , 2017, accessed on May 11, 2017 .
Geschichtsquellen.de
Veronika Feller-Vest: Gallus Oehem. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Walter Berschin : Ohem, Gallus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 430 ( digitized version ).
Gerold Meyer von Knonau : Oehem, Gallus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, pp. 179-181.
Klaus Graf: The year of death of the chronicler Gallus Öhem (1521 instead of 1522) ; November 2, 2016; accessed on October 2, 2017

Individual evidence

↑ Albert 1898, pp. 259–260 sees Oheim as the only correct form and Ohem as dialect pronunciation; the catalogs of the university libraries have also chosen uncle
↑ the previous assumption (1522 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was based on the statements by Klaus Graf: The year of death of the chronicler Gallus Öhem (1521 instead of 1522) ; November 2, 2016; accessed on October 2, 2017 amended.
↑ Veronika Feller-Vest: Gallus Öhem. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 20, 2009. Retrieved June 8, 2019 .
↑ Chronicle of the Diocese of Constance. Entry in: Historical sources of the German Middle Ages
↑ Entry on manuscript census - an inventory of the handwritten tradition of German-language texts from the Middle Ages ; accessed on October 3, 2017
^ Chronicon imperii germanici dialecto alamannica conscriptum Catalog entry of the Austrian National Library
^ Klaus Graf : Aspects of regionalism in Swabia and the Upper Rhine in the late Middle Ages. 1988, p. 176 , urn : nbn: de: bsz: 25-opus-53679 ( uni-freiburg.de [PDF; 9.9 MB ]).

personal data
SURNAME	Oh, Gallus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Öhem, Gallus; Uncle, Gallus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Monk and chronicler of the Reichenau monastery
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1445
PLACE OF BIRTH	Radolfzell
DATE OF DEATH	September 12, 1521
Place of death	Constancy

[1] Albert 1898, pp. 259–260 sees Oheim as the only correct form and Ohem as dialect pronunciation; the catalogs of the university libraries have also chosen uncle

[2] the previous assumption (1522 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was based on the statements by Klaus Graf: The year of death of the chronicler Gallus Öhem (1521 instead of 1522) ; November 2, 2016; accessed on October 2, 2017 amended.

[3] Veronika Feller-Vest: Gallus Öhem. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 20, 2009. Retrieved June 8, 2019 .

[4] Chronicle of the Diocese of Constance. Entry in: Historical sources of the German Middle Ages

[5] Entry on manuscript census - an inventory of the handwritten tradition of German-language texts from the Middle Ages ; accessed on October 3, 2017

[6] Chronicon imperii germanici dialecto alamannica conscriptum Catalog entry of the Austrian National Library

[7] Klaus Graf : Aspects of regionalism in Swabia and the Upper Rhine in the late Middle Ages. 1988, p. 176 , urn : nbn: de: bsz: 25-opus-53679 ( uni-freiburg.de [PDF; 9.9 MB ]).