Vita Meinwerci
The Vita Meinwerci episcopi Patherbrunnensis is the biography of Bishop Meinwerk of Paderborn († June 5, 1036 ) and thus the first biography of a Paderborn bishop; it was written in Middle Latin around 1165 . The author cannot be clearly determined, for a long time the abbot Konrad von Abdinghof (1142–1173) was considered the author in research, today it is assumed that the vita was commissioned by a Paderborn bishop - either Bernhard I. von Oesede (1127– 1160) or his successor Evergis (1160–1178) - originated in Abdinghof Monastery.
The Vita Meinwerci is one of the essential sources for the history of the last years of the Liudolfinger family , even if the author failed several times to create a correct chronology from the sources he used for the compilation. The original manuscript is now in Kassel .
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Vita Meinwerci Episcopi Patherbrunnensis (The life of Bishop Meinwerk of Paderborn), ed. by Franz Tenckhoff (= Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH), Scriptores rerum Germanicarum , vol. 59). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1921 (unaltered reprint Hanover 1983).
- Digitalisat edition in MGH: Digital Monumenta (dMGH) .
- Translation of the Vita: Klaus Terstesse: Das Leben des Bishop Meinwerk von Paderborn , First German translation of the Vita Meinwerci published by Franz Tenckhoff in 1921, Paderborn 2001.
- Guido M. Berndt : Vita Meinwerci episcopi Patherbrunnensis. Text, translation, comment. The life of Bishop Meinwerk of Paderborn. Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7705-4914-6 .
- Digitization of the original manuscript in the Open Repository Kassel (ORKA) of the Kassel University Library.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berndt, Guido M .: Vita Meinwerci episcopi Patherbrunnensis. Text, translation, comment. The life of Bishop Meinwerk of Paderborn. Munich 2009, 20 ff.