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ARNO, ARN

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 631 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARNO, ARN or See also:AQUILA (c. 750-821), See also:bishop and afterwards See also:archbishop of See also:Salzburg, entered the See also:church at an See also:early See also:age, and after passing some See also:time at See also:Freising became See also:abbot of Elnon, or St Amandas it was afterwards called, where he made the acquaintance of See also:Alcuin. In 785 he was made bishop of Salzburg and in 787 was employed by Tassilo III., See also:duke of the Bavarians, as an See also:envoy to See also:Charlemagne at See also:Rome. He appears to have attracted the See also:notice of the Frankish See also:king, through whose See also:influence in 798 Salzburg was made the seat of an archbishopric; and Arno, as the first holder of this See also:office, became See also:metropolitan of See also:Bavaria and received the See also:pallium from See also:Pope See also:Leo III. The See also:area of his authority was extended to the See also:east by the conquests of Charlemagne over the See also:Avars, and he began to take a prominent See also:part in the See also:government of Bavaria. Ile acted as one of the missi dominici, and spent some time at the See also:court of Charlemagne, where he was known by the assembled scholars as Aquila, and his name appears as one of the signatories to the See also:emperor's will. He established a library at Salzburg, furthered in other ways the interests of learning, and presided over several synods called to improve the See also:condition of the church in Bavaria. Soon after the See also:death of Charlemagne in 814, Arno appears to have withdrawn from active Iife, although he retained his archbishopric until his death on the 24th of See also:January 821. Aided by a See also:deacon named See also:Benedict, Arno See also:drew up about 788 a See also:catalogue of lands and proprietary rights belonging to the church in Bavaria, under the See also:title of Indiculus or Congestum Arnonis. An edition of this See also:work, which is of considerable value to See also:historical students, was published at See also:Munich in 1869 with notes by F. Keinz. Many other See also:works were produced under the See also:protection of Arno, among them a Salzburg See also:consuetudinary, an edition of which appears in Quellen and Ererterungen zur bayrischen and deutschen Geschichte, See also:Band vii., edited by L.

Rockinger (Munich, 1856). It has been suggested by W. von See also:

Giesebrecht that Arno was the author of an early See also:section of Annales Laurissenses it ajores, which deals with the See also:history of the Frankish See also:kings from 741 to 829; and of which an edition appears in Monumenta Germaniae historica. Scriptores, Band i. pp. 128-131, edited by G. II. See also:Pertz (See also:Hanover, 1826). If this supposition be correct, Arno was the first extant writer to apply the name See also:Deutsch (theodisca) to the See also:German See also:language.

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