Heinrich von Melk
Heinrich von Melk was a medieval author.
The author of "Von des tôdes gehugede" calls himself Heinrich and describes himself as poor kneht ("servant") of God and calls his abbot Erkenfried . Although there were many Heinriche and more than one Abbot Erkenfried in the 12th century, probably only Erkenfried von Melk (until 1163) comes into question. Heinrich was therefore a cleric or monk or lay brother who probably lived in the Melk monastery in Lower Austria in the middle of the 12th century .
His satirically colored works represent a high point of the ascetic literature of his time. Two early Middle High German rhyming poems have come down from him : "Von des tôdes gehugede" (literally: "From thinking about death"; an attempt to translate the Latin Memento mori ; derived from Middle High German hügede , "memory") belongs to the memento-mori poetry. The Sittenspiegel From Priestly Life is an important cultural-historical document. The only manuscript with these texts, the Codex Vindobonensis 2696 , was written around 1300.
Verses 610ff are often used to date the early minstrels. von Von des tôdes gehugede , addressed to a knight's widow standing before his corpse:
- nû yourself, in how getâner called
- diu tongue lige in sînem mouth,
- dâ with er diu troutliet customer
- to sing comfortably
Translation: "Now see in which way the tongue lies in his mouth, with which he could comfortably sing the love songs".
Since nothing else is said about these love songs, except that they can lead to eternal ruin, no particular minstrel can be dated by them; especially not the Kürenberger . It can mean anonymous, popular poetry.
expenditure
- Heinrich von Melk: Von des todes gehugde - admonition about death , Middle High German, New High German, translated, commented and with an introduction to the work ed. by Thomas Bein, (= Reclams Universal Library; Volume 8907), Stuttgart 1994 ISBN 3-15-008907-7
literature
- Robert R. Anderson, Ulrich Goebel ( arrangement ): Word index and rhyme index for the so-called Heinrich von Melk . (= Indices verborum on old German literature; Volume 3). Amsterdam 1976, ISBN 90-6203-429-2
- Theodor Henner: Erchenfried . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 187. (About his abbot)
- Peter Erich Neuser: About the so-called "Heinrich von Melk" . (= Cologne German Studies; Volume 9). Cologne 1973
- Christoph Petzsch: Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 415 ( digitized version ).
- Elias von Steinmeyer: Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 632 f.
Web links
- Entry on Heinrich von Melk in the database of the state's memory for the history of the state of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
- Literature by and about Heinrich von Melk in the catalog of the German National Library
- The so-called Heinrich von Melk , re-edited according to R. Heinzels edition from 1867. by Richard Kienast, (= Editiones Heidelbergenses; Volume 1), Heidelberg 1946 full text, to be called up chapter by chapter (left in the structure)
Remarks
- ↑ See for example Jürgen Martin: The 'Ulmer Wundarznei'. Introduction - Text - Glossary on a monument to German specialist prose from the 15th century. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1991 (= Würzburg medical-historical research. Volume 52), ISBN 3-88479-801-4 (also medical dissertation Würzburg 1990), p. 130.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heinrich von Melk |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | early Middle High German poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 12th Century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 12th Century |