Rahewin

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Rahewin (* unknown; † before 1177) was the scribe and notary of Bishop Otto von Freising and is best known for his continuation of Otto's actions by Friedrich .

life and work

Not much is known about his origins and youth, possibly he came from Freising , which he calls patria mea . In 1144 he is mentioned for the first time as cartularius (document writer ) of Bishop Otto von Freising. Other documents name him capellanus and notarius , from 1156 also canonicus ( canon ) of the Freising Cathedral . He is mentioned in numerous documents as a scribe or witness, with the most varied spellings of his name occurring: Ragewinus, Radevicus, Reguinus, Rachwynus and many others.

According to Otto von Freising's dictation, Rahewin wrote the Chronica sive Historia de duabus civitatibus and presented it to Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa together with Abbot Rapoto von Weihenstephan in 1157 . He accompanied Otto von Freising on his travels and was also present when he died in the Cistercian Abbey of Morimond in September 1158. Otto commissioned Rahewin to finish his unfinished work on the deeds of Emperor Frederick, the Gesta Friderici seu Cronica . Rahewin presumably brought the news of Otto's death to the emperor, and the emperor confirmed the order.

Rahewin wrote Books III and IV of Frederick's Deeds , which he completed in 1160. He describes events in the period from August 1157 ( Frederick's campaign against Poland ) to February 1160 ( Synod in Pavia , in which the schism between Pope Alexander III and antipope Viktor IV should be resolved).

He also wrote Latin poems, including a several hundred verse version of the prosaic Theophilus legend of Paul the deacon in rhymed hexameters and a Flosculus Rahewini ad H. praepositum. Two grave inscriptions for Otto are included in Friedrich's deeds , one of them in vagant stanzas and the other in rhymed hexameters.

After 1160 there is little news about Rahewin. Two documents for the Schäftlarn monastery from 1168 and 1170 name him provost of St. Veit . In 1177 a Konrad is handed down as provost of St. Veit, so that Rahewin had probably died earlier.

literature

  • Wilhelm Wattenbach:  Rahewin . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 27, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 166 f.
  • Roman Deutinger:  Rahewin von Freising. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 111 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Franz-Josef Schmale : Introduction to the "Deeds of Friedrich" . In: Bishop Otto von Freising and Rahewin: The deeds of Friedrich or more correctly Chronica . Translated by Adolf Schmidt, edited by Franz-Josef Schmale. German Science Publishing House, Berlin 1965.
  • Hans-Werner Goetz: Rahewin. In: Wolfgang Stammler / Karl Langosch (ed.): The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon. Volume 7, Berlin, New York 1989, Sp. 976-982.
  • Georg Waitz and Bernhard von Simson (eds.): Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum separately in editi 46: Ottonis et Rahewini Gesta Friderici I. imperatoris. Hanover 1912 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
  • Dietrich Becker: The siege of Crema at Rahewin, in Ligurinus and in the Carmen de gestis Frederici I. imperatoris in Lombardia. Studies on the literary form of Staufer historiography. Würzburg, Univ., Diss., 1975.
  • Roman Deutinger : Rahewin von Freising. A scholar of the 12th century (Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Schriften 47), Hanover 1999 [= Dissertation Tübingen 1998] ISBN 3-7752-5447-1 .
  • Ulrike Götz (eds.): Otto von Freising, Rahewin, Conradus sacrista. Historian of the 12th century in Freising. Contributions to the 850th year of the death of Bishop Otto von Freising in 2008. Freising 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-031024-9 .
  • Thomas Haye: Rahewin as a poet. In: German Archives for Research into the Middle Ages 54 (1998), pp. 533-566.
  • Klaus Oesterle: Studies on Rahewin. Heidelberg, Univ., Diss., 1962.
  • Jürgen Petersohn: Rahewin IV 49: seu de recipiendo prefecto. On the role of the prefecture in the imperial-Roman negotiations of 1159. In: Karl Hauck / Hubert Mordek (ed.): Historiography and intellectual life in the Middle Ages, Cologne, Vienna 1978, pp. 397-409.
  • Sonja Reisner: Form and function of the imitation at Rahewin. The use of ancient models in his part in the Gesta Friderici I. imperatoris. In: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 104 (1996), pp. 266–285.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Gesta Fredereci seu CRONICA IV,. 13
  2. ↑ Letter to Otto Kaiser Friedrich, in Chronica sive historia de duabus civitatibus I .
  3. ^ Letter from Rahewin to Chancellor Ulrich and Notary Heinrich, in Gesta Fredereci seu Cronica III .
personal data
SURNAME Rahewin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Clerk and notary for Bishop Otto von Freising
DATE OF BIRTH before 1144
DATE OF DEATH before 1177