Arnold of Saint Emmeram (Latin: ''Arnoldus Emmeramensis'', ''Arnoldus de Sancto Emmeramo'') was an early 11th century Benedictine scholar, writer, composer and prior at
Saint Emmeram's Abbey
Saint Emmeram's Abbey ( or ''Reichsabtei Sankt Emmeram'') was a Benedictine monastery founded around 739 at Regensburg in Bavaria (modern-day southeastern Germany) at the grave of the itinerant Frankish bishop Saint Emmeram. The original abbey ...
. He was of noble birth, from the house of
Vohburg
Vohburg (Central Bavarian: ''Vohbuag an da Doana'') is a town in the district of Pfaffenhofen, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Danube, 14 km east of Ingolstadt
Ingolstadt (; Austro-Bavarian language, Austro-Bav ...
.
In his youth he was an avid reader of the Roman classics, but he turned away from them for fear of being infected by their paganism.
His literary taste was still lastingly influenced, and he felt the medieval Latin of the ''Vita
St Emmerami'' was insufficient, proposing a revision in better Latin. This plan however met with resistance on the part of the monks of the abbey, and Arnoldus was even forced to flee, moving to Magdeburg, where Meginfrid, rector of the local Latin school, took up the project of revising the text of the legend.
Arnoldus himself is the author of two books, ''De miraculis et memoria cultorum Sancti Emmerami'' and a work on Saint Emmeram in dialogue form.
Arnold's year of death is unknown, but later than 1035, likely close to 1050.
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11th-century deaths
German Benedictines
Year of birth unknown
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