Wernher the Swiss

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Wernher der Schweizer was probably the editor of a life of Mary from the 14th century, who probably came from northeastern Switzerland. The Middle High German arrangement of the Vita beate virginis Marie et salvatoris rhythmica, which is not quite 15,000 verses long, is divided into four books, each of which is introduced by its own prologue. They are preceded by a prose preface.

The text has only survived in an online codex of the Heidelberg University Library (cpg 372), which is dated by the scribe to 1382 (fol. 103r).

output

  • Max Päpke: The Marian life of the Swiss Wernher . Kästner Verlag, Göttingen 1908 (also dissertation Berlin 1908)
  • Max Päpke (ed.), Arthur Hübner ( arrangement ): The life of the Virgin Mary of the Swiss Wernher. From the Heidelberg manuscript (German texts of the Middle Ages 27). Weidmann, Dublin 1967 (reprint of the Weidmann edition, Berlin 1920)

literature

  • Johannes Madey:  WERN (H) ER the Swiss. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 17, Bautz, Herzberg 2000, ISBN 3-88309-080-8 , Sp. 1533-1534.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Max Päpke: The Marian life of the Swiss Wernher. With addenda to Vögtlin's edition of “Vita Marie Rhythmica” . (Palaestra 81). Berlin 1913 ( Internet Archive ).
  • Kurt Gärtner: Wernher the Swiss . In: ²VL , Vol. 10: Ulrich von Lilienfeld - The twelve-year-old monk . 1999, col. 953-957.
  • Rejane Gay-Canton: Between censorship and self-censorship. Appeals for improvement in the "Vita Rhythmica" and their revisions . In: Barbara Fleith and René Wetzel (eds.): Cultural topography of the German-speaking southwest in the later Middle Ages. Studies and texts (cultural topography of the Alemannic region; 1). DeGruyter, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-484-89500-3 , pp. 41-60.
  • Henrike Manuwald: "Now speak as he shapes something!" The look at Jesus in the "Marienleben" Wernher the Swiss . In: Ricarda Bauschke (Ed.): Seeing and Visibility in the Literature of the German Middle Ages . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-05-005184-0 , pp. 311-330.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manuscript Census
personal data
SURNAME Wernher the Swiss
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss priest and the editor of the manuscript Marienleben
DATE OF BIRTH 13th century or 14th century
DATE OF DEATH 14th century or 15th century