ÖSER, Irmhart (Fremhart, Vrinhart, Liehart). - Theologian, b. at Augsburg ca. 1310-15; he studied at Bologna in 1335, was parish priest at St. Marein (Styria) and then at Strassgang near Graz (1340), canon at Augsburg (1358), where he probably died.

Around 1350 he translated into German the Treatise of Rabbi Samuel (11th century) on the true Messiah, from the Latin translation by the Spanish Dominican Alfonso Bonihominis (1339); this work spread rapidly throughout Germany, and more than thirty manuscripts of it are known: it was printed at Augsburg in 1475, Zwickau 1524, Marburg 1600. A Latin letter of his to Giles of Graz is found in cod. Vat. lat. 724, f. 100ᵃ. There he is indicated as professor of canon law.

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BIBL.: A. Pelzer, Codices Vaticani latini, II, t. Città del Vaticano 1931, p. 48; H. Maschek, Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur, Berlin 1935, p. 59; K. Langosch, Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters, in Verfasserkröhen, III, ibid. 1943, p. 650.

Hermine Kühn Steinhausen

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