Noker from Zwiefalten

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Noker , also Noker von Zwiefalten , Noggerus , Notker , (* before 1065 , † after 1090 ) was a Benedictine , poet and abbot of Zwiefalten Monastery .

Life

Noker was a Benedictine monk from the Einsiedeln monastery . In 1065 he came to Hirsau Monastery, which was shaped by the Cluniac reform movement . There he wrote around 1070 the first German penitential sermon in rhyme with the early Middle High German poem Memento mori , consisting of 142 rhyming verses, probably written towards the end of the 11th century (handed down in a Strasbourg manuscript). In the manner of a penitential sermon, Noker exhorts his fellow human beings to think about death , warns against hell and asks God to show mercy on the "evil" world.

Researchers suspect that Noker was the second abbot of the Benedictine reform monastery in Zwiefalten (1091-1095).

See also

Early Middle High German literature , monastery literature

literature

  • Noker von Zwiefalten in: Monuments of German poetry and prose from the VIII. - XII. Century, published by Karl Müllenhoff and Wilhelm Scherer, Berlin 1892
  • The Alemannic Memento mori , edited by Rudolf Schützeichel, Tübingen 1962 in: The religious seals of the XI. and XII. Century, edited by Friedrich Maurer , Tübingen 1964–70
  • Frank Gentry: Noker's Memento mori and the Desire for Peace. , in: Amsterdam Contributions to Older German Studies 16/1981, pages 25–62
  • Frank Gentry: Noker's Memento mori: Translation and Commentary , in: Allegorica V / 2 (1980), pages 7-18
  • Frank Gentry: “Vruot ... damned? Memento mori “, vv. 61-62. , in: Journal for German Antiquity and German Literature 108/1979, pages 299–306
  • Günther Schweikle: Memento mori , in: The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author's Lexicon , Volume 6, 2nd Edition Berlin, New York 1987, Columns 381–386

Web links

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  1. ^ [1] , "Noker von Zwiefalten" (Bibliotheca Augustana - Augsburg University of Applied Sciences)
  2. ↑ [2] , "Memento mori" (Bibliotheca Augustana - Augsburg University of Applied Sciences)
  3. ↑ a b c [3] , "Dr. Frank Gentry's Published Research" (Penn State)
personal data
SURNAME Noker from Zwiefalten
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Noggerus; Notker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Benedictine, poet, abbot of Zwiefalten
DATE OF BIRTH before 1065
DATE OF DEATH after 1090