Richbod
Richbod , also Rîchbôdô († October 1, 804 in Trier ), was the fourth abbot of the Lorsch monastery since 784 , became archbishop of the Trier diocese around 791 and thus at the same time head of the Mettlach abbey . Richbod was a student of the Frankish scholar Alkuin (735-804). With his education based on antiquity , Richbod was one of the representatives of the Carolingian Renaissance in the reign of Charlemagne . In his teacher's letters he appears under the graced name Makarius . Little is known about his person. Alcuin, with whom he had a lasting friendship, is said to have teased his pupil Richbod because of his preference for the Roman poet Virgil , whose work Aeneid he knows better than the Gospels, but is said to have been convinced of Richbod's erudition and orthodoxy. Than four years after the synod of Frankfurt 794 , in 798 again the faith dispute with representatives of the teaching of Adoptionism emerged, led Alcuin that even Richbod a copy of a pamphlet of the Catalan bishop Felix of Urgell this, the main representative at the Synod as a heresy condemned Teaching, received to write a rebuttal. Little is known of Richbod's work in the abbeys and in the Archbishopric of Trier . Among other things, he is said to have initiated the construction of a three-aisled church. Richbod died in Trier in 804 and was buried in Lorsch Abbey.
swell
- Chronicon Laureshamense . In: Georg Heinrich Pertz u. a. (Ed.): Scriptores (in Folio) 21: Historici Germaniae saec. XII .. Hannover 1869, p. 352 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
literature
- Stephanie Haarländer : Ricbod. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 502 ( digitized version ).
- Paul Wagner: Richbod . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 426.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gundolf Keil : 'Lorsch Pharmacopoeia'. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil, Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , pp. 865 f .; here: p. 865.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Wiomad |
Archbishop of Trier 791–804 |
Wizzo |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Richbod |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Archbishop of Trier, Abbot of Mettlach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 8th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 1, 804 |
| Place of death | trier |