Helmold von Bosau

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Helmold von Bosau (* around 1120 in the Goslar area ; † after 1177 in Bosau , Holstein ) was a chronicler and clergyman .

Life

Helmold entered the order in 1134 to missionary purposes founded monastery Segeberg one. The convent was moved back to Neumünster in 1137 after an attack by Pribislaw . Helmold received his further education, presumably between 1139 and 1142, in Braunschweig by the later Bishop Gerold , at that time head of the collegiate school St. Blasius. After his return to Neumünster, Helmold was ordained a deacon in 1150 . From about 1156 he was pastor in Bosau, the mission base Vizelins and Gerolds.

Chronica Slavorum

Beginning of the Lübeck manuscript (15th century)

Helmold wrote, probably at the suggestion of Bishop Gerold von Oldenburg, probably around 1167 a chronicle in Latin, the Chronica Slavorum (Slavonic Chronicle). The work describes the eastern settlement and the missionary work of the Slavs from Charlemagne onwards . It deals primarily with the formation of rule, settlement and mission in Ostholstein, Mecklenburg, Brandenburg, Pomerania and Scandinavia. As sources , Helmold mainly used Adam von Bremen , the Viten Willehads and Ansgar , supplemented by oral tradition and his own experience. Helmold's Slavic Chronicle is considered the most important written source in Lower Germany in the 12th century. Arnold von Lübeck continued the chronicle from 1171 to 1209. Ernst von Kirchberg translated it into high German rhyme form in 1378/1379. The oldest edition was published by Schorkel (Frankfurt 1556).

Manuscripts, editions and translations

Chronica Slavorum in Polish translation, 1862
  • Digitized version of the Lübeck manuscript from the 15th century, Lübeck City Library , Ms. hist. 4 ° 4
  • . Bernhard Schmeidler (Ed.): Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum separately in editi 32: Helmolds Slavenchronik (Helmoldi presbyteri Bozoviensis Cronica Slavorum) Hanover 1937 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
  • Helmold: Chronica Slavorum , retransmitted and explained by Heinz Stoob . In: Selected sources on German history in the Middle Ages. (FSGA 19), 7th edition 2008 (unchanged reprint of the 6th, compared to the 5th edition expanded by a supplement in 2002), Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 3-534-00175-3 .
  • Helmold: Chronicle of the Slaven (translated by Josef M. Laurent and Wilhelm Wattenbach , edited by Alexander Heine). Phaidon, Essen / Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-88851-102-X (= historian of German antiquity ).

literature

Lexicons
Secondary literature
  • Max Manitius : History of Latin Literature in the Middle Ages. Third part (volume) with Paul Lehmann's participation: From the outbreak of the church dispute to the end of the twelfth century. Munich 1931, pp. 493-498 ( HdAW 9.2.3).
  • Bernhard Schmeidler : Helmold and his Cronica Slavorum. In: Journal of the Association for Lübeck. History and archeology. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 14.1912, pp. 185ff.
  • Heinrich Felix Schmid: The Slavic antiquity and the research of the Germanization of the German northeast. In: Journal of Slavic Philology. Winter, Heidelberg 1.1924, pp. 396-415; 2.1925, pp. 134-180.
  • Volker Scior: The own and the foreign. Identity and foreignness in the chronicles of Adam von Bremen, Helmolds von Bosau and Arnold von Lübeck. Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-05-003746-6 . ( Review ).

Web links

Commons : Helmold  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Dieter Lent (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon 8th to 18th century. Braunschweig 2006, p. 335.
personal data
SURNAME Helmold von Bosau
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Helmold; Helmoldus Bosoviensis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman and chronicler
DATE OF BIRTH around 1120
PLACE OF BIRTH space Goslar
DATE OF DEATH after 1177
Place of death Bosau , Holstein