Katharina von Gebersweiler

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Katharina von Gebersweiler (also Catharina de Gebilswür, Catharina de Gebilswilr, Gueberschwiler, Guebwiller, Gewerswiler, Gueberschwihrensis ; * approx. 1250 ; † perhaps January 22, 1330/45) was a mystic of the Middle Ages and perhaps a prioress of the Dominican convent Unterlinden in Colmar, Alsace . She is the author of the Unterlindener Sisters' Book , in which the life of religious women and the biographies of individual sisters are described. The work is considered to be an important contribution to the history of the Dominican women and to the understanding of the mystics.

Life

Katherina entered the Unterlinden monastery as a child (around 1260). Nothing more is known about her life and it is unclear whether she is identical to a prioress of the same name who died in 1330 or 1345. The only information about her life comes from her work, according to which she entered the monastery at a young age and wrote the book of sisters in old age, almost blindly.

The quality of the Latin prose written by her should on the one hand speak for her good education, on the other hand it is assumed that the sister book could be the oldest text of this kind. The writings of Gerhard von Frachet (o) and Dietrich von Apolda serve as models for the biographical collections .

Works

  • About the life of the first Unterlinden sisters in Colmar . (Latin, digitized via digital-sammlungen.de - original title: Liber de vitis primarum sororum de Subtilia in Columbaria . Approx. 1310-1320).

Translations

  • Elisabeth Kempf: Translation of the 'Vitae sororum' of Katharina von Gebersweiler . (Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibl., Cod. 164.1 Extravagantes).
  • Biographies of the first sisters of the Dominican convent in Unterlinden . In: Relics from the Middle Ages . tape IV. , No. 3 . Georg Joseph Manz, Regensburg 1863 ( digitized via mdz-nbn-resolving.de ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albrecht Classen: Katherina von Gebersweiler . In: Katharina M. Wilson, M. Wilson (Eds.): An Encyclopedia of continental women writers . Garland Pub, New York 1991, ISBN 0-8240-8547-7 , pp. 453 ( digitized version in Google book search).
  2. ↑ Catharina de Gebilswür. In: geschichtsquellen.de. Retrieved October 25, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Ursula Köhler-Lutterbeck, Monika Siedentopf: Katharina von Gebweiler . In: Lexicon of 1000 women . Verlag JHW Dietz, Bonn 2000, ISBN 978-3-8012-0276-7 , p. 174 .
  4. ↑ Hiram Kümper: Katherina von Gebersweiler . In: Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle . September 13, 2016 ( brillonline.com [accessed October 25, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Christa Tuczay: Unterlindener sister book (Latin) . In: The late mysticism of the sister books . S. 31 ( digitized via tuczay.files.wordpress.com [PDF]).
  6. ↑ a b c d Rebecca LR Garber: Medieval German Women Writers (1100-1450): Biographies and Sources . ( Text on monasticmatrix.osu.edu ).
  7. ↑ Manuscript Census | Kempf, Elisabeth: Translation of the 'Vitae sororum' of Katharina von Gebersweiler. Retrieved October 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Katharina von Gebersweiler
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Catharina de Gebweiler; Katharina von Geberschweier; Katharina von Gebesweiler; Katharina von Geweswiler; Catherine de Gebilswilr; Caterina da Geberschweier; Katharina von Gueberschwihr; Katharina von Gebilswilr; Katharina von Guebwiller; Catharina de Geweswiller; Catharina von Gebsweiler; Catharina de Gebilswilr; Gueberschwihrensis (Latin)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION medieval mystic, author of a sisters' book called Vitae Sororum
DATE OF BIRTH around 1250
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: 1330 or 1345