Heimo of Bamberg
Heimo of Bamberg or Heimo of Michelsberg (c. 1085 – 31 July 1139) was an Augustinian canon, historian and chronologist.
Heimo was born around 1085.[1] He was a canon in the church of Sankt Jakob just outside Bamberg by 1108.[2][3] He later studied at the abbey of Michelsberg, where his teachers included Dudo and Frutolf. Ebbo of Michelsberg in his Life of Otto of Bamberg records that a Spaniard named Bernard, who entered Micheslberg in 1122, was the primary incluence on Heimo's interest in chronology.[2] Bernard and Heimo engaged in extensive discussions of the date of Creation, the date of the birth of Jesus and the date of his Passion.[4]
According to Ebbo, Heimo wrote many books, but only one has survived.[3] This is a universal chronicle in Latin, entitled Consideratio annorum seculi et Christi Iesu, but better known as De decursu temporum.[5] This he completed in 1135.[3] He dedicated the work to the priest Burchard, one of his teachers at Michelsberg.[2]
Heimo refers to one of his earlier works, a computus that is now lost.[3]
Heimo died on 31 July 1139, as recorded in the necrology of Michelsberg.[6] He may have suffered from a chronic illness, for he refers in De decursu temporum to "my infirmity".[7]
References
[edit]- ↑ Verbist 2016.
- 1 2 3 Kishpaugh 2003.
- 1 2 3 4 Verbist 2010, p. 252.
- ↑ Verbist 2010, pp. 251–252.
- ↑ Verbist 2016. Kishpaugh 2003 gives the full title as De decursu temporum ab origine mundi.
- ↑ Verbist 2010, p. 253. His date of death is given as 3 July 1138 in Kishpaugh 2003.
- ↑ Verbist 2010, p. 253.
Sources
[edit]- Kishpaugh, M. J. (2003). "Heimo of Michelsberg". New Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 6 (2nd ed.). Gale. p. 718.
- Nothaft, C. Philipp E. (2011). Dating the Passion: The Life of Jesus and the Emergence of Scientific Chronology (200–1600). Brill.
- Verbist, Peter (2010). Duelling with the Past: Medieval Authors and the Problem of the Christian Era, c. 990–1135. Brepols.
- Verbist, Peter (2016). "Heimo von Bamberg". In Graeme Dunphy (ed.). Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle Online. Brill.