Heiricus of Auxerre

Heiricus von Auxerre (* around 841; † after 875 ) was a theologian of the Benedictine order , who today is mainly noted for his knowledge of the classics.

Heiricus entered the Abbey of Saint-Germain in Auxerre as a monk . His main work is the Vita S. Germani , which he glossed over . He studied theology in Ferrières with Servatus Lupus and Haimo von Auxerre and also in Soissons and taught at the convent school . Heiricus is counted among the more important Carolingian writers. Remigius von Auxerre was one of his students and was his successor as theological teacher.

Works

• Heirici Carmina . In: Poetae Latini medii aevi 3: Poetae Latini aevi Carolini (III). Published by Ludwig Traube . Berlin 1886, pp. 421-517 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized ); Migne: Patrologia Latina 124, 1131–1208 / BHL 3458. (Vita)
• Miraculi S. Germani . In: Theodor Mommsen (Ed.): Auctores antiquissimi 13: Chronica minora saec. IV. V. VI. VII. (III). Berlin 1898, pp. 172-173 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version ); Georg Waitz u. a. (Ed.): Scriptores (in Folio) 13: Supplementa tomorum I-XII, pars I. Hannover 1881, pp. 401-404 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version ); Migne, Patrologia Latina 124, 1207-1270 / BHL 3462
• Homiliaire sur les évangiles de l'année liturgique
• I Collectanea di Eirico di Auxerre, ed. by Riccardo Quadri, (Spicilegium friburgense, vol. 11), Friborg / Switzerland 1966 (collection of excerpts and sentences from Valerius Maximus , Suetonius , Pseudo-Caecilius Balbus).

literature

• Henri Barré: Les homéliaires carolingiens de l'école d'Auxerre. Authenticity. Inventory. Tableaux comparatifs. Initia . Studi e Testi, vol. 225. Cité du Vatican 1962.
• John J. Contreni: "And even today." Carolingian monasticism and the "Miracula Sancti Germani" of Heiric of Auxerre. In: David R. Blanks (Ed.): Medieval monks and their world - ideas and realities. Studies in honor of Richard E. Sullivan, (Brill's series in church history, Vol. 25), Leiden 2006, pp. 35-48.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Heiricus of Auxerre. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 689.
• Rijcklof HF Hofman: Glosses in a ninth century Priscian MS. probably attributable to Heiric of Auxerre († ca.876) and their connections. In: Studi medievali, Ser. 3, 29: 805-839 (1988).
• Pierre Janin: Heiric d'Auxerre et les Gesta pontificum Autissiodorensium. In: Francia 4 (1976), pp. 89-106.
• Mechthild Pörnbacher: Augustine fragments with glosses from Heiric von Auxerre , in: Walter Berschin / Kurt Hans Staub (ed.): Fragmenta Darmstadiensia. Heidelberg Manuscript Studies of the Seminar for Latin Philology of the Middle Ages (III), Darmstadt 1997, pp. 31–41.
• Jan Prelog: Heiric von Auxerre († after 875) . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 4, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1989, ISBN 3-7608-8904-2 , Sp. 2111 f.
• Joachim Wollasch: On the personal notes of Heiricus by S. Germain d'Auxerre. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 15 (1959), pp. 211–226.
• Grover A. Zinn: Art. Heiric of Auxerre. In: Medieval France. To Encyclopedia, New York 1995, pp. 439-440.

Web links

• Hericus monachus S. Germani Autissiodorensis in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
• Publications about Heiric by Auxerre in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Jan Prelog: Heiric von Auxerre , in: Lexikon des Mittelalters Volume 4, Sp. 2111–2112.