Iso from St. Gallen

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Iso von St. Gallen ( Latin Iso Sangallensis; * around 830 in Thurgau ; † May 14, 871 in the Münster-Granfelden Monastery ) was a Benedictine monk in the St. Gallen Abbey , then in the Münster-Granfelden Monastery. He was held in high regard as a teacher and doctor.

Life

Iso came from a free Thurgau family and was given a monastic upbringing at the St. Gallen monastery as a child . His name as a scribe can be found on St. Gallen documents from the years 852–868. He was a teacher at the inner, then head of the outer monastery school and established the scientific rank of St. Gallen. Ekkehard IV. († after 1057) offers in the monastery chronicle Casus Sancti Galli a picture of Isos, partly overhauled by legend. He credits him with a decisive influence on the formation of leading St. Gallen personalities such as Solomon III. von Konstanz , Notker Balbulus , Tuotilo and Ratpert too. Notker testifies in the dedication of his sequences that Iso taught him the principle of syllabic texting, later called the Isonic rule .

Perhaps the later Burgundian king I. Rudolf Iso was the monastery Münster-Gran Felden in the Bernese Jura appointed. There, too, he worked as a teacher and doctor in the monastery and in the region.

In St. Gallen, Iso experienced the canonization of the founding abbot Otmar and the ceremonial translations of his relics in 864 and 867. In his two-volume main work Relatio de miraculis s. As an eyewitness, Otmari describes the miracles that happened to Iso.

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SURNAME Iso from St. Gallen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Iso Sangallensis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Benedictine, teacher and hagiographer
DATE OF BIRTH around 830
PLACE OF BIRTH Thurgau
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 871
Place of death Moutier-Grandval