Wolf of Tool bags

Wolf of Tool bags , known as Wolf Servat , towards 805 - 862, ecclesiastical French, he was abbot of the Abbey Saint-Pierre de Ferrières (current Tool bag-in-Gâtinais, Loiret).

He played a paramount role like Théologien augustinien and organizer of the Church of France, and assisted in 853 with the Concile of Soissons.

He is regarded as “proto-humanistic”, because the copy of old texts of the Latin and Greek principal authors made it possible to make revive the ancient letters.

It had as raises, Heiric of Auxerre, one of the four large monastic schoolmasters of Saint-Germain with Auxerre.

Biography

Born in 805 with Tool bags in the diocese from Direction, it was raised and educated at the school of the Abbey Saint-Pierre de Ferrières. To the 25 years age, the abbot Aldric, sent it to study the Théologie beyond the rhine. Á the Abbey of Fulda, while studying, it gave itself of the courses of letters, which brought a large celebrity to him. It became acquainted there also with Rabanus Maurus and Eginhard, scientists of great reputation.

Its good reputation, which preceded its return to Ferrières, is worth the favor of the Empress to him Judith of Bavaria which names it tutor of the son of Louis the Piles, the future Charles II the Bald person, for whom it always represented a certain authority.

After its designation like Abbot of Tool bags, the monastery became one of the headlights of science and European civilization. It developed the copy of the old texts of the principal authors Latin and Greek, a Pline the Young person corrected badly transcribed and sent to Rome translated texts Suétone and of Fifth-Curce. He developed an important library in his abbey by acquiring many original manuscripts, and by copying (correcting often) the manuscripts borrowed from others Monastère S (Tours, Fulda, and Prüm), from friends (such Eginhard, Wenilo, Reginbert and Marcward) and spirits brilliant like Altsigus of York or the pope Benoît III.

In December 844, at the time of the synod of Worm-on-Launette, of the bishops of Francie Western, the decisions formulated by the abbot Wolf of Tool bags, against the noble ones, plunderers of the goods of the Church, were not accepted by king Charles the Bald person, because it found them too radical.

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