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FRAUENLOB , the name by which HEINRICH VON See also:

MEISSEN

MEISSEN, a See also:

German poet of the 13th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, is generally known. He seems to have acquired the See also:

SOBRIQUET

sobriquet because in a famous Liederstreit with his See also:

RIVAL

rival Regenbogen he defended the use of the word Frau (i.e. frouwe,=See also:

LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

lady) instead of Weib (wtp=woman). Frauenloh was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born about 1250 of a humble burgher See also:

FAMILY

family. His youth was spent in straitened circumstances, but he gradually acquired a reputation as a See also:

SINGER, SIMEON (1846-1906)

singer at the various courts of the German princes. In 1278 we find him with See also:

Rudolph I. in the Marchfeld, in 1286 he was at See also:

PRAGUE (Ger. Prag; Bohemian Praha)

Prague at the knighting of See also:

WENCESLAUS (1361-1419)

Wenceslaus (See also:

WENZEL, KARL FRIEDRICH (1740-1793)

Wenzel) II., and in 1311 he was See also:

PRESENT

present at a knightly festival celebrated by Waldemar of See also:

BRANDENBURG

Brandenburg before See also:

ROSTOCK

Rostock. After this he settled in See also:

MAINZ (Fr. Mayence)

Mainz, and there according to the popular See also:

account, founded the first school of Meistersingers (q.v.). He died in 1318, and was buried in the cloisters of the See also:

CATHEDRAL

cathedral at Mainz. His See also:

GRAVE

grave is still marked by a copy made in 1783 of the See also:

ORIGINAL

original tombstone of 1318; and in 1842 a See also:

MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

monument by See also:

SCHWANTHALER, LUDWIG MICHAEL (1802-1848)

Schwanthaler was erected in the cloisters. Frauenlob's poems make a See also:

GREAT

great display of learning; he delights in far-fetched metaphors, and his versification abounds in tricks of See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form and See also:

RHYME

rhyme. Frauenlob's poet), was edited by L. See also:

Ettmuller in 1843; a selection will be found in K. Bartsch, Deutsche Liederdichter See also:

DES

des la. bis 14.

Jahrhunderts (3rd ed., 1893). An See also:

ENGLISH

English See also:

TRANSLATION

translation of Frauenlob's Cantica canticorum, by A. E. Kroeger, with notes, appeared in 1877 at St See also:

Louis, U.S.A. See A. Boerkel, Frauenlob (2nd ed., 1881).

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