Henry the Glîchezære
Heinrich der Glîchezære was a probably Alsatian author of the 12th century, from whom Reinhart Fuchs , the first animal poem in the German language, comes from. The nickname “der Gleißner” (= deceiver, hypocrite) was mistakenly transferred from the fox to the poet. The poet's patrons were possibly the Counts of Dagsburg or the Zähringer .
Nothing is known about Heinrich's status, but what is striking is his profound legal knowledge, which can be found in Reinhart Fuchs and which make the work an important source of German legal history .
Heinrich's Middle High German epic poem Reinhart Fuchs has been handed down in three manuscripts:
- the Kassel fragments with the Sigle S (after Jacob Grimm's "Sendschreiben" to Karl Lachmann), 8 o Ms. poet. germ. et rom. 1 in the Kassel Murhard library , dated to the beginning of the 13th century, represent the oldest witnesses dar;
- the Heidelberger Märensammlung (Sigle P or H ), Cpg 341 of the Heidelberg University Library , dates from around 1320 to 1330, Reinhart Fuchs is entered on columns 167va-181vb;
- the Kalocsa manuscript ( K ), since 1949 under the signature cod. Bodmer 72 in the Bibliotheca Bodmeriana , Cologny-Génève, is about the same age as P; Heinrich's work is here on columns 162v-177v.
The clearly socially critical ( anti-Taufer ) work was probably created after 1192 based on the old French novel de Renart , it was also called "Isengrîmes nôt" , parodying the title of the Nibelungenlied . It is the only German-language animal pos from this time.
The Reineke-Fuchs fabric was later taken up in the popular book Reynke de vos and also by Goethe .
literature
- Irmgard Meiners: Heinrich the Glichezare. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 408 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Elias von Steinmeyer: Heinrich the Glichezare . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 236.
- Reinhart Fuchs by the Alsatian Heinrich , edited by Klaus Düwel with the assistance of Katharina von Goetz, Frank Henrichvark and Sigrid Krause. (= Old German Text Library; Volume 96). Max Niemeyer, Tübingen 1984, ISBN 3-484-20196-7
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinrich der Glîchezære in the catalog of the German National Library
- Directory of text witnesses in the Marburg manuscript census
- Reinhart Fuchs - Manuscript of Heidelberg University Library: Cod. Pal. germ 341 (digitized version); fol. 167v - 181v
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Henry the Glîchezære |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heinrich the Gleißner |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Author of the only Middle High German animal pos' |
DATE OF BIRTH | 12th Century |
DATE OF DEATH | 12th century or 13th century |