Gerhoh of Reichersberg

Gerhoch of Rich Mountain (* 1092/1093 in Polling, † June 27, 1169 in Rich Mountain) was a Bavarian- Austrian church reformer, theologian and Canons Regular.

Life

The state of Gerhochs family is unclear, but he and five brothers known by name were given sufficient training to enter the ministry. Gerhoch studied at the cathedral school of Hildesheim and was with this training from 1117 Domscholaster in Augsburg. After apparently not sinless life in Augsburg in 1120, he fled into the Canons gang book. From there, he was a staunch advocate of the life form of Canons Regular.

1126 to 1132 he stayed under the protection of Bishop Conrad I of Regensburg in the cathedral city and in Cham. However, he moved with his uncompromising position on issues of church reform and the priestly life form the reluctance of the Regensburg clergy themselves.

With the assistance of Conrad, he was employed in 1132 by Archbishop Konrad I of Salzburg as provost of the pen Reichersberg am Inn. From there he continued his journalistic struggle for church reform with a variety of fonts. Because he represented a strictly papal position, he had to endure it shortly before his death that Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in 1167 imposed the imperial ban on his pen and it was burnt down in the sequence.

In his works, he fought the modern French theology of scholasticism and drew an increasingly pessimistic nascent image of the Church and of the successes of the Antichrist. His sources include Rupert of Deutz and Hildegard von Bingen.