Irimbert of Admont

Irimbert von Admont (* around 1104; † December 26, 1176 ) was abbot of the monasteries Seeon (1147-1151), Michelsberg (1160-1172) and Admont (1172-1177) and a monastic scholar of the 12th century.

Typical of the careers of monks in the context of high medieval church and monastery reform is the biography of Irimbert, probably the younger brother of Gottfried von Admont († 1165). Born around 1104, Irimbert is said to have entered the Admont monastery around 1111 as puer oblatus . By 1147 at the latest he was abbot in the Chiemseekloster Seeon , a community of Benedictines that arose towards the end of the 10th century, from which around the mid-12th century - in connection with Irimbert? - became a double monastery of nuns and monks. Irimbert can be found in the list of witnesses in a document from Archbishop Conrad I of Salzburg dated July 3, 1147, alongside abbots from monastic communities belonging to the Admont monastery reform, such as St. Peter , Millstatt , Biburg or St. Lambrecht .

From the summer of 1151 at the latest, Irimbert worked in the Carinthian women's convent St. Georgen am Längsee , and then also in Admont. The assumption arises that the abbot's ideas, which were probably closely related to the Admonter reform, did not get through to Seeon and had therefore given up. In 1151 and 1152, Irimbert, who was in charge of the Admont women's convents, wrote comments on books of the Old Testament , such as the books of kings. In 1160 there were abbot postulations to Kremsmünster and Michelsberg , Irimbert was wanted as abbot by both monasteries, but the monk decided on Michelsberg.

The Bamberg Michelsberg Monastery, founded in 1015 by the first Bamberg Bishop Eberhard I (1007-1040), a double monastery in the 12th century, was Irimbert's next stop. Irimbert was at the head of the Bamberg Abbey for twelve years, but - certainly due to the Alexandrian papal schism (1159–1177), which particularly affected the Salzburg ecclesiastical province - hardly anything can be learned from his reign. Only a reformist work is likely to be made, whereby resistance of the Michelsberg monks and nuns against the Admonter reform program is neither recognizable nor suspected.

In 1172 Irimbert moved to Admont, the change there being preceded by two double elections, in which Abbot Isinrich von Biburg (1177, 1178) and Abbot Heinrich von Millstatt (1166 – after 1177) or Isinrich and the prior Rudolf von St. Lambrecht each other faced. With Irimbert, the brother of Admont abbot Gottfried, an agreement was reached on an abbot who found general recognition despite or because of his age. So Irimbert returned to his old place of work, but had little effect there in the last years of his life. Only two large Admont manuscripts were written down during his reign, Codices 16 and 17 of the Abbey Library contain Irimbert's biblical commentaries.

literature

• Heinrich von Zeißberg :  Irimbert . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 583.
• Johann Wilhelm Braun: The transmission of the writings of Gottfried and Irimbert von Admont. With an outline of Irimbert's life. Phil. Diss. Gießen 1967. XII, 265 p. With 8 illustrations. (mach.) [See http://historia-docet.de/html/admont.html ]
• Johann Wilhelm Braun: Irimbert von Admont . In: Early Medieval Studies. (FMSt) Volume 7, 1973, pp. 266-323.
• Johann Wilhelm Braun: Some remarks on the assessment of the 'Admonter Reform' and the abbots Gottfried and Irimbert von Admont in recent literature. In: Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches. 87 (1976) pp. 431-434.
• Michael Buhlmann: St. Georgen and Admont - On the relationships between two reform monasteries in the 12th century (= Vertex Alemanniae 22) . St. Georgen 2006, p. 41ff.
• Ulrich Faust : Gottfried von Admont. A 12th century monastic author . In: Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches. (SMGB) Volume 75, 1964, pp. 271-359
• Franz Josef Worstbrock : Admonter letter collection . In: Author's Lexicon . Volume 11, Col. 19-20 Google Booksearch

Web links

• Irimbertus abbas Admontensis in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"

predecessor	Office	successor
Rudolf I.	Abbot of Admont Monastery 1172–1177	Isenrik