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 .
Works
- 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 ).
literature
- 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).
Web links
- Wolfhere von Hildesheim in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
- Publications from and about Wolfhere von Hildesheim in VD 16 .
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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 |