Otfried de Wissembourg
Otfried de Wissembourg (towards 790 - towards 870) is a Moine and a Alsatian Poète .
Biography
Raise monastic school of the Abbaye Bénédictin E of Wissembourg, the Otfried young person will perfect his formation with the Abbaye of Fulda (where he will follow the teaching of Rabanus Maurus) and with the abbey of Saint-Gall (Suisse).
Become monk then monastic principal of Wissembourg, Otfried composed not only of the poems in Latin but also in vernacular language of the time.
Thus will be born, after at least twenty years of work, the " Deliver of Évangiles" in language Tudesque, the first literary work in what will become the German language. This poem of some 16.000 worms which report the life of the Christ according to the four Gospels, is accompanied by Enluminure S like the entry of the Christ to Jerusalem the Palm Sunday and the scene of the Crucifixion.
One can admire some of these drawings to the imperial library of Vienna in Austria.
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