Gottfried of Admont (died 1165) was the

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abbot of

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from 1137 until his death. He is considered to be a reformer and the founder of the "school of Admont", and he is also credited with greatly improving the abbey's library. He was an influential figure, undertaking with

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and

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a papal commission relative to the proposed

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. He strongly backed St Eberhard, who became

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in 1146. Many

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are attributed to him, taking the character of

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; it is now doubted whether he was the author of all of them. His brother Irimbert was a successor as abbot, and may have written some of them.Rainer Berndt (editor), ''"im Angesicht Gottes Suche der Mensch sich selbst": Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179)'' (2001), p. 301.

References

*Stephan Borgehammar, ''Who Wrote the Admont Sermon Corpus - Gottfried the Abbot, his Brother Irimbert, or the Nuns'' pp. 47–51 in Jacqueline Hamesse (editor) ''De l'homélie au sermon: Histoire de la prédication médiévale''

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