Priest Arnold
Priest Arnold , born around 1130, probably in Styria , was an Austrian poet. He is the author of the early Middle High German poem Von der Siebenzahl , a hymn to the gifts of the Holy Spirit . The author transferred the seven charisms - wisdom, insight, advice, strength, knowledge, piety and fear of God - to other principles without any recognizable order, such as the seven petitions of the Our Father , seven seals of the Apocalypse , the seven stars or the seven phases of the moon . The script has been handed down in the Vorau handwriting , written in Bavarian dialect and marked with the information that it was written by a "priest of the hiez Arnolth". The interpretation of the number seven made in the poem had some influence on its symbolism in modern Europe , so the idioms of the seven things are said to go back to it.
Priest Arnold or Arnolt is sometimes also named as the author of the Julian legend, taken from the manuscript with the author's reference "ewart ... Arnolt". However, according to the German biography, the authors are not identical. The work, also written in Bavarian dialect, is usually dated to the middle of the 12th century and is entered in the Graz manuscript after 1335. Juliane deals with the martyrdom of the Christian virgin Juliana, who at the time of the Roman Emperor Maximinus Daia († 313 ) refuses to marry a pagan governor and is then tortured and executed by him.
literature
- Peter Ganz , in: The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon . Volume 1, Berlin, New York 1978, columns 489-493
- Hellmut Rosenfeld: Arnold. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 378 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Anton Emmanuel Schönbach: Priest Arnolts Juliana , in: Mittheilungen From Old German Manuscripts, reprint of an edition from 1882, Olms Verlag 1976; can be viewed in the Google book search
Web links
- Literature by and about Priest Arnold in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Hellmut Rosenfeld: Arnold. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 378 f. ( Digitized version ).
- ^ Lutz Röhrich: Lexicon of proverbial speeches , Volume 4, Herder Spectrum, Freiburg am Breisgau 1991, ISBN 3-451-04400-5 , p. 1474
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arnold, priest |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Arnolt the priest |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Middle High German poet of a legend of saints and a spiritual song |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 11th century or 12th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 12th century or 13th century |