Hartmut von St. Gallen (died 23 January after 905 in

Saint Gall Gall (; 550 645) according to hagiographic tradition was a disciple and one of the traditional twelve companions of Columbanus on his mission from Ireland to the continent. However, he may have originally come from the border region betwe ...

) was

abbot Abbot is an ecclesiastical title given to the head of an independent monastery for men in various Western Christian traditions. The name is derived from ''abba'', the Aramaic form of the Hebrew ''ab'', and means "father". The female equivale ...

of the

Abbey of Saint Gall The Abbey of Saint Gall () is a dissolved abbey (747–1805) in a Catholic religious complex in the city of St. Gallen in Switzerland. The Carolingian-era monastery existed from 719, founded by Saint Othmar on the spot where Saint Gall had er ...

. Hartmut (

Old High German Old High German (OHG; ) is the earliest stage of the German language, conventionally identified as the period from around 500/750 to 1050. Rather than representing a single supra-regional form of German, Old High German encompasses the numerous ...

"of powerful courage and spirit"), was monk, pupil of

Rabanus Maurus Rabanus Maurus Magnentius ( 780 – 4 February 856), also known as Hrabanus or Rhabanus, was a Frankish Benedictine monk, theologian, poet, encyclopedist and military writer who became archbishop of Mainz in East Francia. He was the author of t ...

at the Princely Abbey of Fulda, and became Grimald's successor as Abbot of Saint Gall in 872. Otfrid of Weissenburg dedicated his Old High German "Liber evangeliorum", a kind of

diatessaron The ''Diatessaron'' (; c. 160–175 AD) is the most prominent early gospel harmony. It was created in the Syriac language by Tatian, an Assyrian early Christian apologist and ascetic. Tatian sought to combine all the textual material he fou ...

in southern Rhenisch Franconian dialect, i. a. to his friend and fellow student Hartmut. As

, Hartmut, like his predecessor, generated an abundant construction activity. In 883, he abdicated and afterwards led a life of seclusion as

recluse A recluse is a person who lives in voluntary seclusion and solitude. The word is from the Latin , which means 'to open' or 'disclose'. Examples of recluses are Symeon of Trier, who lived within the great Roman gate Porta Nigra with permissio ...

near the monastery in Saint Gall. He died on a 23 January after 905.

Sources

* Gössi, Anton: ''St. Gallen - Äbte: Hartmut, 872-883.'' in: ''Helvetia Sacra''. III: ''Die Orden mit Benediktinerregel''. 2/1: ''Frühe Klöster, die Benediktiner und Benediktinerinnen in der Schweiz''. Francke Verlag, Bern 1986, p. 1277–79. * Duft, Johannes: ''Hartmut''. in: ''Neue Deutsche Biographie'' (NDB), Vol 8. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, p. 7. * Meyer von Knonau, Gerold: ''Hartmut''. in: ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' (ADB), Vol 10. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 704–6. * Sauser, Ekkart: ''Hartmut''. in: ''Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon'' (BBKL), Vol 22. Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, p. 506.

External links

* Folini, Christian. 2006: "Hartmut"
Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz.

''Abt Hartmut (872-883)''
in the Stadtlexikon Wil. Quoted after Duft, Johannes: ''Die Abtei St. Gallen.'' * 10th-century deaths Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown Abbots of Saint Gall 9th-century Christian abbots {{Christianity-bio-stub