Herbord (Michelsberg)
Herbord (* before 1145; † September 27, 1168 in Bamberg ) was a German Benedictine monk and biographer of Bishop Otto von Bamberg .
In 1146, Magister Herbord came to the Michelsberg Monastery as head of the local school . In 1158 he begins to write a description of the life of Bishop Otto von Bamberg (1102–1139). He relies on the Vitae of Ebo and Prüfening monk ( Librarian Wolfger ?). In contrast to his predecessors, however, he brings the biography into an artistically appealing form of dialogue.
A short version of Herbord's work produced shortly after 1189 by “Anonymus Canisii” found widespread use. Until 1865, Herbord's vita of the Bamberg bishop was only known from compilations, then Giesebrecht discovered Herbord's independent version in a manuscript from the 14th century.
Herbord stood in Michelsberg on the side of a reform party that sought the removal of Abbot Helmerich (1147–1160) and played a key role in bringing Irimbert from Admont to Bamberg in 1160 .
Work editions
Critical Editions
- Rudolf Köpke (Ed.): Herbordi Dialogus de vita Ottonis episcopi Babenbergensis. Hanover 1868 ( MGH Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum separatim editi, volume 33). ( Digitized version )
- Johannes Wikarjak (Ed.): Herbordi Dialogus de vita sancti Ottonis episcopi Babenbergensis. Warszawa 1974 (Monumenta Poloniae Historica, Series Nova, Volume VII 3).
translation
- Lorenz Weinrich (ed.): Heiligenleben on German-Slavic history. Adalbert von Prag and Otto von Bamberg . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2005 (Selected sources on German history of the Middle Ages. Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gedächtnisausgabe, Volume 23). ISBN 3-534-01422-7 . (see review by Jürgen Petersohn ).
literature
- Wilhelm Wattenbach : Herbord . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 42.
- Jürgen Petersohn : Herbord. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 587 ( digitized version ).
- Eberhard Demm : Reform monasticism and Slavic mission in the 12th century . Lübeck and Hamburg: Matthiesen 1970.
- Herbord von Michelsberg. In: Burghart Wachinger et al. (Hrsg.): The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon . 2nd, completely revised edition, ISBN 3-11-022248-5 , Volume 3: Gert van der Schüren - Hildegard von Bingen. Berlin / New York 1981, Col. 1025 ff.
Footnotes
- ^ Early Medieval Studies (= yearbook of the Institute for Early Medieval Research at the University of Münster . Volume 8 ). de Gruyter, 1974, p. 178 .
Web links
- Works by and about Herbord in the German Digital Library
- Herbordus scholasticus Montis S. Michaelis in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Herbord |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Herbordus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German monk and biographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1145 |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 27, 1168 |
| Place of death | Bamberg |