Otloh of St. Emmeram

Otloh of St. Emmeram (also: Otloch, Otlohc, Othloch, Otholochus, Otloh of Saint Emmeran; * around 1010 in the diocese of Freising, † November 23 shortly after 1070 in Regensburg ) was a spiritual writer.

Life-history

Otloh came from a wealthy family. He was educated at the convent school in Tegernsee, from where he was sent because of his writing talent to Franconia. By 1024 he must have resided in the monastery of Hersfeld, later he was clerics in the diocese of Freising. There were 1032 armed with the Archi presbyter Werinher why Otloh entered as a monk in the Benedictine monastery of St. Emmeram to Regensburg.

In St. Emmeram Otloh served as dean and head of the monastery school. Among his pupils was, among others, William of Hirsau. Travels took him to Montecassino and Fulda. Thither he went in 1062 because of a conflict with Bishop Otto of Ratisbon, but came 1066/67 on Amorbach to Regensburg back.

About the person

Otloh a talented writer who is not against criticism of the Church and clergy (eg the Bishop of Regensburg Gebhard III. ) Shrank. But he was all his life repeatedly burdened by serious conflicts of conscience, some of which are tangible in the descriptions of his visions. He had, for example, a preference for works of ancient authors (eg Lucan ), whose teachings but stood in contrast to his Christian faith.

Works

  • Otlohs prayer - a text authored in Altbairisch
  • De confessione actuum meorum - autobiographical writing lost,
  • De doctrina spirituali
  • De admonitione clericorum et laicorum
  • De permissionis bonorum et malorum causis - pastoral letter
  • De cursu spirituali
  • Libellus de tentationibus - autobiographical writing
  • Liber proverbiorum - collection of sayings of ancient and Christian authors for the classroom
  • Liber visionum - Collection of the numerous visions Otlohs and other visionaries
  • Liber de temptatione cuiusdam monachi
  • Vita Bonifatii
  • Vita Sancti Wolfgangi
  • Vita Sancti Magni
  • Vita Sancti Altonis
  • " Quomodo legendum sit in rebus visibilibus " - a sermon treatise ( Amorbach, 1067)
  • Is disputed his authorship in respect of a report on the translation of the relics of St. Dionysius to Regensburg.
  • He also forged documents probably also in favor of St. Emmeram.

Expenditure

  • Collected Works in Migne, Patrologia Latina, CXLVI, 27-434.
  • " Liber de temptatione cuiusdam monachi " investigation, critical edition and translation by Sabine Were, 1999 ( Peter Lang) ISBN 3-906759-45-8
  • Liber Visionum, Paul Gerhard Schmidt ed in: MGH sources of intellectual history. Böhlau, 1989, ISBN 3-88612-073-2.
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