Lupus servatus

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The Epitoma rei militaris of Vegetius in a manuscript made for Lupus. Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana , Vaticanus Palatinus lat. 1572, fol. 62r (mid-9th century)

Lupus Servatus (also called Servatus Lupus and Lupus von Ferrières ; * around 805, † after 861) was abbot of the Benedictine monastery Ferrières-en-Gâtinais , theologian and confidante of Emperor Charles the Bald . His letters are of high literary quality and are important sources for the history of the Carolingian era .

Life

His father Antelmus came from Bavaria , his mother Frotilde was a Franconian from Gâtinais . The bishops Heribald and Abbo of Auxerre were his brothers. As a teenager he entered the Ferrières-en-Gâtinais monastery in the diocese of Sens . Around 828 he came to the Fulda monastery , where Rabanus Maurus was his teacher. He was friends with Einhard and probably also with Gottschalk von Orbais .

Around 836 he returned to Ferrières, where he was supported by the Empress Judith and her son Charles the Bald. In 840 he was elected Abbot of Ferrières. In the disputes over rule in the Carolingian Empire after the death of Louis the Pious , he always remained loyal to Karl the Bald and was employed by him in numerous diplomatic missions.

Works

He wrote several smaller theological works, including Viten von St. Maximin von Trier and St. Wigbert . For the Margrave Eberhard von Friuli he put on an extensive collection of legal texts and capitularies . Of his numerous letters, 132 have survived; they were probably edited by his pupil Heiricus von Auxerre . The letters testify to his high classical education and are influenced by the letters of Cicero . He was particularly interested in philology , he collected manuscripts from ancient authors (Cicero, Boethius , Valerius Maximus, etc.), which he commented on and had copied in his scriptorium . Letters 10, 4 and 91, 4 attest to his efforts to get a copy of the then very rare De vita Caesarum des Suetonius . He was one of the first readers of Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni and expressed himself with the greatest admiration for its style (Letter 1, 5 ), which, in contrast to other contemporary production, he praised as a successful realization of ancient stylistic ideals and to which he even attested Ciceronian gravitas (dignity).

Work editions

  • Vita Maximini episcopi Trevirensis auctore Lupo. In: Bruno Krusch (ed.): Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum 3: Passiones vitaeque sanctorum aevi Merovingici et antiquiorum aliquot (I). Hanover 1896, pp. 71–82 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
  • Lupi vita Wigberti abbatis Friteslariensis. In: Georg Waitz , Wilhelm Wattenbach u. a. (Ed.): Scriptores (in Folio) 15.1: Supplementa tomorum I-XII, pars III. Supplementum tomi XIII pars I. Hannover 1887, pp. 36–43 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
  • Lupi abbatis Ferrariensis epistolae. In: Epistolae (in quart) 6: Epistolae Karolini aevi (IV). Edited by Ernst Dümmler , Ernst Perels a . a. Berlin 1902, pp. 1–126 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
  • Peter Kenneth Marshall (Ed.): Servati Lupi Epistulae . Teubner , Leipzig 1984.
  • Oliver Münsch: The Liber legum des Lupus from Ferrières . (Freiburg contributions to medieval history, vol. 14), Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Brussels, New York, Oxford, Vienna 2001, ISBN 978-3-631-38026-0 .
  • Michael Fleck (ed.): Life and miracles of Saint Wigbert. "Lupus servatus". The life of St. Wigbert. The miracles of St. Wigbert. (Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse, vol. 67), Marburg 2010.

literature

  • Peter Kenneth Marshall: The Codex Bernensis of the letters of Servatus Lupus, abbot of Ferrières. In: Revue bénédictine 91 (1981), pp. 164-169.
  • Peter Kenneth Marshall: The "Epistulae" of Servatus Lupus, Abbot of Ferrières. Some textual notes. In: Revue bénédictine 89 (1979), pp. 183-187.
  • Peter Kenneth Marshall: The learning of Servatus Lupus. Some additions. In: Mediaeval Studies 41 (1979), pp. 514-523.
  • Andreas Merkt:  Servatus Lupus. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 9, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-058-1 , Sp. 1468-1470.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Werner Andreas Schmidt: Constitutional doctrines in the 9th century. The prince mirrors and political writings of Jonas von Orléans, Hinkmar von Reims, Sedulius Scottus, Servatus Lupus von Ferrières and Agobard von Lyon. Mainz 1961.
  • Steven A. Stofferahn: Knowledge for Its Own Sake? A Practical Humanist in the Carolingian Age . In: The Heroic Age. A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe 13, 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In a letter to Heribald he mentions the communis frater , the "common brother" (No. 37, in Epistolae (in quart) 6: Epistolae Karolini aevi (IV). Edited by Ernst Dümmler , Ernst Perels et al. Berlin 1902, p. 46 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )). The source for Heribald's origin and thus also that of Lupus are the "Deeds of the Bishops of Auxerre" ( Gesta episcoporum Autisiodorensium , in: Georg Waitz et al. (Ed.): Scriptores (in Folio) 13: Supplementa tomorum I-XII, pars I . Hannover 1881, pp 397-398 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , Digitalisat )).
personal data
SURNAME Lupus servatus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Servatus lupus; Lupus from Ferrières
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Carolingian Benedictine, theologian and Abbot of Ferrières
DATE OF BIRTH at 805
DATE OF DEATH after 861