Notker the Stammerer

I. Notker of St Gall, also Notker Balbulus or Notker Poeta (German Notker the Stammerer Notker the Poet or ) called, (c. 840 in Heligau or Jonschwil, † April 6 912 in the Abbey of St. Gall ) was a important scholar and poet of the Carolingian period. His life is described by Ekkehard IV Casus sancti Galli in the.

Life

Notker came from the region of Toggenburg. After the death of his foster parents father gave him the monastic education to the monastery of St. Gall. According to Ekkehard he got together with his friends and Tuotilo Ratpert the basics of formation of iso and the Irish Moengal. Early on, he had begun to Textieren the wide sweeping Gregorian Hallelujah Schlussmelismen. According to his own testimony (Dedication of the Liber Ymnorum ) he turned it inherited from the iso syllabic rule ( Isonische rule).

In addition to his 880 from richer and more elaborate nascent poetry he was proven to 909, also worked as a document writer, next to a teacher at the monastery school. His humor reflect the Gesta Karoli Magni anecdotal, but also contain valuable historical messages.

The self-chosen nickname Balbulus - " stutterer " - refers to a fault, which disabled him while speaking.

Works

Notker's Gesta Karoli Magni 883 arisen work is considered one of the most beautiful narrative books of the German Middle Ages. He also created a Vita sancti Galli and Sermo sancti Galli, the martyr story sancto De Stephano (around 883 ), the theological writing notations and a pattern book for letters and documents are received. He also wrote occasional poems and spiritual hymns. With his forty Latin sequences ( Liber hymnorum, dating back to 884 and Liutward of Vercelli dedicated ), which he also set to music (partly) self, he became the most important spiritual poets of the medieval Latin literature. He was attributed in morte sumus the antiphon Media vita. According to legend, he is said to have sealed, when he saw the danger hovered builders in the construction of a bridge over an abyss. The antiphon is but probably originated as early as the year 750 in France.

Remembrance

  • Protestant (as teachers of the Church ): April 6, in the name Evangelical Calendar
  • Roman Catholic ( as Seliger ): not optional memorial: April 6,
  • Optional memorial in the Diocese of St. Gallen May 7

Discography

  • Notker Balbulus: sequences, Tropical etc., ensemble Ordo Virtutum, conducted by Stefan Johannes Morent, Christopher 2011
  • Digital representation of sequences of Notker the Abbey Library of St. Gallen: http://www.e-sequence.eu/de/

Werkausgaben

  • Notker, Gesta Karoli, in: Sources for the Carolingian Empire History, Part 3, edited by Reinhold Rau ( FSGA 5), Darmstadt 1969, pp. 321-427.
  • Hans F. Haefele (ed.): Scriptores rerum Germanicarum, Nova series 12: Notker the Stammerer, deeds of Charlemagne ( Gesta Karoli Magni Notkeri Balbuli imperatoris ) Berlin 1959 ( Monumenta Historica Germaniae, digitized )
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