Noker from Zwiefalten
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
- E-text in the Bibliotheca Augustana
- Poetry in the spirit of Cluny: "Memento Mori" by Noker (translation Alemannic-German)
swell
- ^ [1] , "Noker von Zwiefalten" (Bibliotheca Augustana - Augsburg University of Applied Sciences)
- ↑ [2] , "Memento mori" (Bibliotheca Augustana - Augsburg University of Applied Sciences)
- ↑ a b c [3] , "Dr. Frank Gentry's Published Research" (Penn State)
personal data | |
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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 |