EUGENIUS VULGARIUS. - An ecclesiastic who lived between the end of the 9th century and the first half of the 10th. In Naples he taught grammar and rhetoric; he was perhaps for some time at Montecassino, then at Rome, where he lived as a penitent monk. He died shortly after 950, but the place of his death is uncertain.

Around 907 he intervened in favor of Pope Formosus in the controversies over ordinations, writing the dialogue Super causa et negotio Formos papae (PL. 129, 1103-12, but under the name of Ausilius) and also De causa Formosiana libellus (ed. princeps in E. Dümmler, Ausilius und Vulgaris. Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte des Papstthums im Anfange des X. Jahrhunderts, Leipzig 1866, pp. 117-99). Some poems and letters also survive from E. (in MGH, Poet., IV, 1, p. 406 ff. and E. Dümmler, op. cit., pp. 139-56).

Bibliography

BIBL.: Besides the above-cited work of E. Dümmler, and the review in Neue Archiv Ges. alt. de u. Gesch., 4 (1879), pp. 550-60, cf. W. Wartenbach, Deutschlands Geschichtspolkes, 6th ed., I, Berlin 1893, p. 305.

Stanislao Majarelli

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Eugenius Vulgarius

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