Adso of Montier-en-Der

Adso (* 910 or 915 in the Jura in Upper Burgundy, † 992 ), and azo or Adson, was a medieval theologian and scholar.

Adso came from high aristocratic family; he was Benediktineroblate and was appointed 934 by Bishop Gauzlin of Toul head of the school at the monastery St- Èvre in Toul, in the following year, then in the Abbey of Montier-en -Der, after which he later received his name suffix (Latin Adso Dervensis ). 968 he was there, Dept. After 980 he was temporarily abbot of St- Bénigne in Dijon, however, where he remained for only two years. 992 Adso died on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

Importance learns Adso especially in his capacity as a well-read author of Holy reports and other religious writings, but especially by De ortu et tempore Anti Christ ( " origin and time of the Antichrist" ), its resulting on behalf of the king 's wife Gerberga 949/954 writing from the arrival of the Antichrist, in which he summarizes the eschatological expectation of the apocalyptic peace emperor for the first time.