Also known as:
German: Otto von Freising;
Otto of Freisingen;
Latin: Otto Frisingensis
OTTO, Bishop of Freising. - Celebrated historian of Frederick Barbarossa, b. between 1111 and 1115, son of Margrave Leopold III of Austria and of Agnes, daughter of Henry IV, d. at Morimond in 1138. He studied in Paris around 1128. A Cistercianmonk at Morimond before 1138; shortly afterwards bishop of Freising. In 1145, entrusted with an embassy to Eugene III, he had occasion to become acquainted with Italy and the political situation in which it found itself. In 1147-48 he took part in the Second Crusade. He accompanied Barbarossa on the first descent into Italy and strove to smooth over the friction between the Emperor and Adrian IV.
The Gesta Friderici offer a highly detailed picture of the political events of which O. was a direct witness, and no few notices concerning various personages of the time hand down vivid traits of their spiritual physiognomy. Much has been debated concerning the method and the historiographical value of the Chronicon or Historia de duobus civitatibus, which, though inspired by Augustinian theological concepts, draws on Orosius and other sources, and is without doubt the most remarkable product of medieval historiography.
Endowed with a good philosophical culture, O. shows himself well informed on the dialectical controversies of the time, whose protagonists he recalls. On his own account, he shows that he had come under the influence of the school of Gilbert de la Porrée (v.). He was among the first to bring to Freising and to Germany the treatises that form the Ars or Logica nova.
Bibliography5 worksU. Balzani, Le cronache italiane nel medioevo, Milan 1901, pp. 239-41; J. Schmidlin, Die Philos. O.s v. Freising, in Philos. Jahrb. d. Görre
BIBL.: U. Balzani, Le cronache italiane nel medioevo, Milan 1901, pp. 239-41; J. Schmidlin, Die Philos. O.s v. Freising, in Philos. Jahrb. d. Görres-Gesell., 18 (1905), pp. 156-75; id., Bischof O. v. Fr. als Theologe, in Der Katholik, 65 (1905), pp. 81-112, 151-82; id., Die Eschatologie O.s v. Fr., in Zeitschr. Für kath. Theol., 20 (1905), pp. 445-456; id., Die geschichtsphilos. u. kirchenpolit. Weltanschauung O.s v. Fr., Freiburg im Br. 1906
(very important); C. Mierow, The two Cities by O., Bishop of Fr., New York 1928; K. Haid, O. v. Fr., Bregenz 1934; P. Brezzi, O. di Fr., in Boll. dell'Ist. ital. per il medioevo e Archivio Muratoriano, 54 (1939), pp. 128-328; Manitius, III, pp. 376-388; A. Passerin d'Entrèves, O. di Fr. e la storiografia del medioevo, in Riv. intern. di filos. del dir., 20 (1940), pp. 360-67.
Nardi, Bruno. “Ottone, vescovo di frisinga.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, coll. 467–468. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/ottone-vescovo-di-frisinga.
MLA
Nardi, Bruno. “Ottone, vescovo di frisinga.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, coll. 467–468. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/ottone-vescovo-di-frisinga.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec9_ottone_vescovo_di_frisinga,
author = {Nardi, Bruno},
title = {Ottone, vescovo di frisinga},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {IX},
pages = {467--468},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1952},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/ottone-vescovo-di-frisinga}
}
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