Also known as:
German: Ekkehard IV. von St. Gallen;
Ekkehard IV, Ekkehard of St Gall, Ekkehard of St. Gall, Ekkehard IV of Saint Gall, Ekkhard of St. Gall;
Italian: Eccheardo di S. Gallo;
Latin: Ekkehardus Sangallensis
EKKEHARD OF SAINT GALL. - Name of 5 famous monks of this monastery. The most famous is E. IV, b. ca. 980, d. ca. 1060. His family and homeland are unknown; he became a monk at St. Gall, where he attended the school of Notker the Stammerer, whom, after his death, he succeeded in the office of head of the school of the cathedral of Mainz, having been summoned there by Archbishop Aribo. In 1031 he returned to St. Gall and died there on 21 October, probably in the year 1060.
He composed several poetic works and the continuation of the chronicle of the monastery of St. Gall. Among the poems are notable: a brief dissertation on the words Iube domine benedicere; Versus ad picturas, that is, poetic inscriptions to be added to the paintings of the cathedral of Mainz and as many inscriptions for the pictures of the life of St. Gall in the monastery of the same name; Liber benedictionum v Benedictinum ad mensas, poetic blessings for the use of superiors in choir and at table. Furthermore, he corrected the poem Waltharius manu fortis of E. I; he collected poems for the feasts of the saints and of the Church from the unpublished writings of Notker, which he published after the master's death, adding explanatory notes to them. His poems are useful to the writer for the important notices that they report here and there. His principal work is Casus S. Galli (in MGH, Scriptores, II, 75-147), written in the years 1047-53, in which E. continues up to the year 971 the chronicle of the monastery, left by Ratpert at the year 883.
Diligent in the research and use of sources, E. in his narration is on the other hand sometimes fanciful, confuses names, falls into anachronisms. Nevertheless the chronicle remains one of the principal sources of the history of the German Church in the Middle Ages.
Bibliography4 worksI. Egli, Der Liber benedictionum Etcheharts IV., in Mitteilungen z. V. G., 2nd series, 31 (1909); E. Dummler, Ekkehart IV. von St. Gallen, i
BIBL.: I. Egli, Der Liber benedictionum Etcheharts IV., in Mitteilungen z. V. G., 2nd series, 31 (1909); E. Dummler, Ekkehart IV. von St. Gallen, in Zeitschrift für deutsche Altertum, 14 (1869), pp. 1-73; E. Schatz, Über die Dichtungen Ekkeharts IV. von St. Gallen, in Corona quernea (Festgabe K. Strecker), Leipzig 1941, pp. 199-235; W. Wattenbach, Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter I, Tübingen 1948, pp. 238-43.
Vicentini, Ulderico. “Eccheardo di San Gallo.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, col. 36. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/eccheardo-di-san-gallo.
MLA
Vicentini, Ulderico. “Eccheardo di San Gallo.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, col. 36. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/eccheardo-di-san-gallo.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec5_eccheardo_di_san_gallo,
author = {Vicentini, Ulderico},
title = {Eccheardo di San Gallo},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {V},
pages = {36},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1950},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/eccheardo-di-san-gallo}
}
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