Herbort from Fritzlar
Herbort von Fritzlar was a German poet of the Middle Ages . His only known work, a Troy - epic of 18,458 verses in Middle High German language, probably written 1190-1200.
life and work
Herbort calls himself in the epilogue of his “Liet von troye” as “von fritslar herbort ein gelarter schulere” (“Herbort from Fritzlar, a learned student”). In the prologue he mentions that Landgrave Hermann von Thuringia commissioned him with the work. It cannot be decided whether he was a master's degree at the Petersstift in Fritzlar or belonged to the Thuringian court clergy .
The "Liet von Troye" ("Song" or "Seal of Troy") is the oldest surviving Troy poetry in the German language. Herbort worked according to an old French model, the " Estoire de Troie " by Benoît de Sainte-Maure , written around 1165 for the Anglo-Norman royal court, but shortened it significantly and took its courtly tendency back. The ancient material is thus designed more as a historical epic and less forced than with Benoît as a courtly novel . Herbort depicts the suffering of war without illusions and without glossing over.
Substance and diffusion
The subject of the "Liet von Troye" , the destruction of Troy by the Greeks, is one of the most popular and ideologically influential narrative themes of the Middle Ages. It also formed the prelude to the Eneasroman by Heinrich von Veldeke , a bestseller of Middle High German literature, which was written a few years earlier at the Landgrafenhof . In formal terms (purity of rhymes) Herbort is in the footsteps of Veldeke, but he does not achieve the same poetic quality. Perhaps because of this, his novel has hardly found widespread use and is only fully preserved in a single manuscript from 1333.
See also: Courtly epic , ancient novel
literature
- Klaus Grubmüller: Herbort von Fritzlar. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 587 ( digitized version ).
- Helga Lengenfelder: The "Liet von Troyge" Herborts von Fritzlar , Bern / Frankfurt am Main, 1975
- Edward Schröder: "On the tradition of Herbort von Fritzlar." In: News from the royal society of science in Göttingen. Philological-historical class. 1909. Issue 1. - Weidmann, Berlin, 1909 (pp. 64–102)
Web links
- Literature by and about Herbort von Fritzlar in the catalog of the German National Library
- The tradition of Herborts is from troye : compilation in the manuscript census
- 1837 edition by Google Books
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Herbort from Fritzlar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Middle High German author of a Troy novel |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 12th Century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 13th Century |