Hugo von Trimberg

Author's picture from the Leiden manuscript of the "Renner"

Hugo von Trimberg (* around 1230 in Wern (a), today Ober- and Niederwerrn ; † after 1313 in Bamberg- Theuerstadt) was a universally educated didactic writer of the late High Middle Ages .

From 1260 to 1309 he was rector of the clerical monastery St. Gangolf in the Bamberg suburb of Theuerstadt.

Hugo wrote Latin scripts for use by preachers, saints biographies and a directory of ancient and middle Latin authors. His main work is the epic Der Renner , written between 1296 and 1313 . The work, comprising 24,600 verses, is the most extensive didactic poem in the German language and has been handed down in several manuscripts and has been edited many times.

A shortened (text version Bx3) and linguistically modernized version was printed in 1549 by Cyriakus Jakob zum Bock in Frankfurt am Main .

Works

• Semen
• Laurea sanctorum
• Registrum multorum auctorum
• Solsequium
• The runner

literature

• Richard Moritz Meyer:  Hugo von Trimberg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, pp. 762-765.
• Eva Rummer:  Hugo von Trimberg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 24 f. ( Digitized version ).
• G. Schweikle: Hugo von Trimberg , in: author lexicon . 2nd edition (VL²). Vol. 4, pp. 268–282 (corrections in Vol. 11, pp. 698 f.).
• Angelika Strauss (ed.): The "Solsequium" of Hugo von Trimberg. A critical edition . Wiesbaden 2002 (= knowledge literature in the Middle Ages; vol. 39).
• Rudolf Kilian Weigand: Hugo von Trimberg's “hit”. Tradition, source dependency and structure of a late medieval didactic poetry. Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 3-89500-202-X (= knowledge literature in the Middle Ages; vol. 35).
• Rudolf Kilian Weigand: Half knights and servants. To categorize and illustrate marginalized social groups in Hugo von Trimberg's “Renner”. In: Hans-Jochen Schiewer and Karl Stackmann (eds.): The presence of the Middle Ages in his manuscripts . Results of the Berlin conference in the Berlin State Library – Prussian Cultural Heritage, April 6–8, 2000, Tübingen 2002, pp. 83–105.

Web links

Commons : Hugo von Trimberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Hugo von Trimberg  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Hugo von Trimberg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hugo von Trimberg in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
• Hugo von Trimberg in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )
• Hugo von Trimberg in "Cimelia Heidelbergensia"
• Biography on the pages of the Bamberg diocese anniversary