Ruprecht of Würzburg
Ruprecht von Würzburg (life dates unknown, 13th or 14th century), name variants: "Ruprecht von Wirzburg", "Robert de Wurtzbourg" and Latinized "Rupertus Herbipolensis" as well as in the work itself "Ruoprecht ein [von] Wirzburgaere [Wirzburg]", was a German poet best known for his short story in verse Two Merchants and the Faithful Housewife .
life and work
Hardly anything has been transmitted about Ruprecht as a person, the dates of his life are unknown and there is only one work by him in the form of a handwriting . Since he calls himself “a Würzburger” (“Ruoprecht ein Wirzburgaere”), for example in text passage 940 , as was customary in the Middle Ages , Würzburg will have been the city of his origin or his main place of activity. The poet "Ruprecht von Würzburg" should not be confused with the later provost of the same name (mentioned in the context of the Bishop of Bamberg , 1462).
His novella Two Merchants and the Faithful Housewife in verse is originally titled Von zwein Koufmannen or Von Zwei Koufman and is written in Middle High German . The 34 verses have different lengths and, like the only contemporary work ( Wigalois ) by Wirnt von Grafenberg , are written in three rhymes. Ruprecht von Würzburg is also classified in German mediaeval studies in the context of Michael de Leone (around 1350), a Würzburg protonotarius .
The motif of a woman's loyalty to be checked, processed in Two Merchants and the Faithful Housewife , was taken up as a theme by William Shakespeare in his play The Tragedie of Cymbeline from 1623.
See also
- Ruprecht as a first name from Old High German
literature
- Günter Hähn: Ruprecht von Würzburg . Leipzig , Frankenstein & Wagner 1931. No ISBN.
- Christoph Gutknecht : The Middle High German verse novella "Von zwein koufmannen" by Ruprecht von Würzburg. , glue-bound dissertation , University of Hamburg 1966.
- Peter Kolb and Ernst G. Krenig: Lower Franconian History . Volume 2: From the High Middle Ages to the beginning of the denominational age . P. 571 ("Ruprecht von Würzburg"). Würzburg 1993. ISBN 9783429014599 .
- Ulla Williams: "Ruprecht von Würzburg". In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon - Authors and Works from the German-speaking Cultural Area . Volume 10, p. 122 f. Berlin 2011. ISBN 9783110220421 .
- Christopher Köhler: Section “Würzburg” (deals with Ruprecht von Würzburg). In: Martin Schubert (Hrsg.): Places of writing in the German Middle Ages: scriptoria - works - patrons . Pp. 621–644 and p. 641. Berlin 2013. ISBN 9783110217926 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Ruprecht von Würzburg in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on "Ruprecht von Würzburg" in the German biography
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry on “Ruprecht von Würzburg” in the CERL Thesaurus , accessed on September 28, 2019.
- ^ A b Andrea Schallenberg: Playing with limits: On the gender difference in Middle High German verse narratives . German literature. Studies and sources, Volume 7. Page 270 f. Berlin 2012. ISBN 9783050052670 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Stammler and Karl Langosch: The German literature of the Middle Ages - author's lexicon . Unchanged reprint of the 2nd edition. Berlin 2010. ISBN 9783110222487 .
- ^ Kaspar Friedrich Gottschalck: The knight castles of Germany . Volume 1., page 63. Halle , Hemmerde and Schwetschke 1810.
- ↑ Catalog entry on Von zwein koufmannen at the DNB, accessed on September 28, 2019.
- ↑ Catalog entry on Von Zwei Koufman at DNB, accessed on September 28, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ruprecht of Würzburg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ruprecht von Wirzburg; Robert de Wurtzbourg; Rupertus Herbipolensis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 13th century or 14th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 13th century or 14th century |