Thangmar

Thangmar of Hildesheim ( * ca 940/950 in the diocese of Hildesheim;? † 25 May after 1003 and before 1007 in Hildesheim ) was director ( Scholaster ) the Hildesheim Cathedral School and is considered as the author of the biography of Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim, the Vita Bernwardi.

The origin of this axes is unknown. At first he was a priest at the Hildesheim Cathedral, around 970 there Domdekan. As Scholaster he was also a librarian and notary. He was from 976 teachers and educators of the future Bishop Bernward, probably as Henry II ( HRR ) (* 973).

Presumably, he resigned the office of the dean before September 1000.

As of 1000 broke with the Archbishop of Mainz Willigis the Gandersheimer dispute over the membership Gander home at Hildesheim or Mainz, he accompanied Bishop Bernward to Rome. In 1002 he made ​​the trip again alone.

In connection with the campaign of Henry II against Baldwin IV of Flanders, where Bernward in 1007 took part Thangmar is not mentioned, which can be interpreted as an indication of his death happened back then.

Thangmar found his grave in the Anthony Chapel under the 1003 Martin consecrated chapel in the cloister of the monastery founded by Bernward St. Michael, which he had left a collection of 50 books.

Thangmar arises in the prologue to the Vita Bernwardi as the authors before. Widely acknowledged his authorship is only for the first 10 chapters. For the following account of the steps taken to Bernward lifetime stages of Gandersheimer dispute and the Bernward trip to Rome and the conclusion with the construction of the monastery of St. Michael and Bernward's death, the question is controversial.