Walter of Châtillon

Walter of Châtillon (Latin: Gualterus de Castellione, Walterus from Insulis; French Gautier de Châtillon; * 1135 in Lille or Ronchin at Lille; † around 1190, according to other sources 1201 ) was a French writer and theologian of the 12th century, who wrote in Latin.

He studied at Reims in Stephen of Beauvais and Paris. He wrote, probably during his student years, a number of Latin poems in the style of goliards, which found their way into the collection Carmina Burana. During his lifetime he was against more famous for the Alexandreis, a long Latin epic poem about Alexander the Great, which is dedicated to the Archbishop William of Reims. The written in hexameters work is full of anachronisms - the crucifixion of Jesus has already taken place with him at the time of Alexander. The Alexandreis was popular at the time Walters and influential. Matthew of Vendôme and Alain de Lille borrowed from it and Arrigo since Settimello imitated it by. A line from it is sometimes cited: incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim. ( "It falls into the clutches of Scylla, who wants to avoid the Charybdis. " )

Many poems are written in his style or take up his issues were attributed without sufficient reason Walter. He was not, for example, the author of the satirical Apocalypse of Golias, which was once considered his work. Besides his poems Walter wrote a dialogue in which he attacks the Jews, and a treatise on the Trinity. Perhaps the Moralium dogma philosophorum come from him.

Werkausgaben

  • Alexandris, immersive Alexandri Magni gesta. Edited by Athanasius Gugger of Berneck. Monastery printing, St. Gallen 1659th Jacob Müller, St. Gallen 1693rd
  • Alexandreis. The Song of Alexander the Great. Translated, annotated and with an afterword by Gerhard route Bach, composed by Otto Klingner. With an introduction by Walter Berschin. Second, revised edition. University Press, Darmstadt 2012, ISBN 978-3-534-24975-6.
  • The ten poems of Walther von Lille, called Châtillon. Edited by Friedrich August Wilhelm Müldener. Rümpler, Hannover 1859 ( digitized in the Google Book Search ). Reprint: Kessinger, 2010, ISBN 978-1168796837.
  • The songs of Walther of Châtillon in the handwriting of St. Omer 351. Edited and explained by Karl Strecker. 2nd unchanged edition. Weidmann, Berlin 1925.
  • Walter of Châtillon. Morally and satirical poems from German, English, French and Italian manuscripts. Edited by Karl Strecker. Winter, Heidelberg 1929, DNB 573,595,542th
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