Wandelbert
Illustration — Wandalbert of Prüm presents his martyrology to a king, presumably Louis the German. Depiction from a 9th-century manuscript Wandalbert of Prüm (813 – died after 850), also known as Wandalbertus Prumiensis, was a Benedictine monk, distinguished poet, and theological writer. Little is known of his personal history.
Wandelbert
Wandalbert von Prüm · http: userfiles/image/galerie/E-4196.jpg · Public domain
- Born
- 813 · France.
- Died
- 801 · Prüm.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- theologian · poet
- Known for
- Vita et miraculi sancti Goari · Martyrologium · Horologium · De horarum metis · De mensium nominibus · De creatione mundi
- Languages
- Old High German · medieval Latin
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Illustration — Wandalbert of Prüm presents his martyrology to a king, presumably Louis the German. Depiction from a 9th-century manuscript Wandalbert of Prüm (813 – died after 850), also known as Wandalbertus Prumiensis, was a Benedictine monk, distinguished poet, and theological writer. Little is known of his personal history.
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He was apparently a native of Francia, born around 813. In 839 he was already a monk at the Abbey of Prüm, where he was head of the school. About this date Abbot Markward commissioned him to rewrite the old Life of St. Goar and to supplement it by an account of the miracles worked by the saint. It originated in the desire to perpetuate the fame of St. Goar, whose cell on the Rhine was given to the monastery of Prüm by King Pepin. The life Wandalbert wrote is not without historical value. He composed his second work, a martyrology in verse that was finished about 848, at the request of Otrich, a priest of Cologne, and with the aid of his friend Florus of Lyon. The martyrology is based on earlier ones, particularly that of the Venerable Bede. Together with the martyrology are poems on the months and their signs, on the various kinds of agricultural labour, the seasons for hunting, fishing, cultivation of fruit, of the fields, and of vineyards, and the church Hours. The poetry is, in general, uniform and monotonous, the most graceful passages are various descriptions of nature. Wandalbert also wrote a (lost) work on the Mass.
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801
Wandelbert died at Prüm.
813
Wandelbert born at France.
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- 1.Screen. Writing the Early Medieval West. Cambridge University Press. 244. 2018.
- 2.West, Charles. Reframing the Feudal Revolution: Political and Social Transformation between Marne and Moselle, c. 800 – c. 1100. Cambridge University Press. 65. 2013.
- 3.Wispelwey, Berend. Biographical Index of the Middle Ages. De Gruyter Saur. 1138. 2011.
- 4.The Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. (James Strong and John McClintock) Harper and Brothers; NY; 1880
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- Heinz Erich Stienen (1981), Wandalbert von Prüm. Vita et Miracula sancti Goaris
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Work and production. Works recorded as notable number 6: Vita et miraculi sancti Goari, Martyrologium, Horologium, De horarum metis, De mensium nominibus and De creatione mundi.
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