Wolfhere from Hildesheim

Wolfhere von Hildesheim was canon in Hildesheim and biographer in the 11th century.

Life

Wolfhere probably came from Saxony . At the instigation of Godehard of Hildesheim , he was trained in the monastery school of the Hersfeld Abbey , at the same time as Godehard's nephew, Ratmund von Niederaltaich . Then he first went to Niederaltaich Monastery . He later became a canon at Hildesheim Cathedral and confidante of Bishop Godehard. Around the middle of the 11th century he wrote two descriptions of the bishop's life , the first of which at the request of Abbot Ratmund, from 1028 to 1049 abbot in Niederaltaich, a school friend from Hersfeld's time. His Vita Godehardi prior and Vita Godehardi posterior are chronologically , but also in terms of textual history, a continuation of Thangmar's Vita Bernwardi .

Vita Godehardi prior . In: Georg Heinrich Pertz u. a. (Ed.): Scriptores (in Folio) 11: Historiae aevi Salici. Hanover 1854, pp. 167-196 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version ).
Vita Godehardi posterior . In: Georg Heinrich Pertz u. a. (Ed.): Scriptores (in Folio) 11: Historiae aevi Salici. Hannover 1854, pp. 196-218 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version ).

Stephanie Haarländer : Vitae episcoporum. A genre of sources between hagiography and historiography, examined using biographies of bishops of the Regnum Teutonicum in the age of the Ottonians and Salians ( monographs on the history of the Middle Ages , 47). Stuttgart 2000.
Max Manitius : History of Latin Literature in the Middle Ages . Volume 2: From the middle of the 10th century to the outbreak of the struggle between church and state . Munich 1976 (reprint of the first edition from 1923), pp. 313-317 ( limited preview in Google book search).

personal data
SURNAME	Wolfhere from Hildesheim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Catholic canon and biographer
DATE OF BIRTH	10th century or 11th century
DATE OF DEATH	11th century or 12th century