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CORVEY , a See also:place in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Westphalia, on the See also:Weser, a mile See also:north of the See also:town of See also:Hoxter, with which it communicates by an See also:avenue of See also:lime trees. During the See also:middle ages it was famous for its See also:great See also:Benedictine See also:abbey, which was founded and endowed by the See also:emperor See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis the Pious about 820, and received its name from having been first occupied by a See also:body of monks coming from See also:Corbie in See also:Picardy. The bones of St See also:Vitus, the See also:patron See also:saint of See also:Saxony, were removed thither _ according to See also:legend in 836, but apart from this attraction, Corvey became the centre of See also:Christianity in Saxony and a nursery of classical studies. The See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
abbot was a See also:prince of the See also:Empire, and Corvey was made a bishopric in 1783. In 1803 the abbey was secularized, in 1815 its lands were given to See also:Prussia, and in 1822 they were bestowed on See also:Victor Amadeus, See also:landgrave of See also:Hesse-Rotenburg, by whom they were bequeathed, in 1834, to Prince Victor of See also:Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst, See also:duke of See also:Ratibor. The abbey, which is now used as a See also:residence, possesses a magnificent library of 150,000 volumes especially See also:rich in old illustrated See also:works, though the See also:ancient collection due to the See also:literary See also:enthusiasm of the See also:Benedictines is no longer extant. Here in 1517 the See also:manuscript of the five first books of the See also:Annals of See also:Tacitus was discovered. Here See also:Widukind wrote his Res gestae Saxonicae. Here, also, the librarian and poet See also:Hoffmann von Fallersleben lived and worked. The Annales Corbejenses 648–1148 of the monks can be read in the Monumenta Germaniae historica, See also:Band iii. The Chronicon Corbejense, published by A. C. Wedekind in 1823, has been declared by S. See also:Hirsch and See also:Waitz (Kritisehe Prufung, See also:Berlin, 1839) to be a See also:forgery.
See P. Wigand, Geschichte der Abtei Korvey (Hoxter, 1819) ; and M. See also:Meyer, Zur dltern Geschichte Corveys and HOxters (See also:Paderborn, 1893).
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