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See also:HERMANN OF See also:REICHENAU (HERIMANNUS AUGIENSIS) , commonly distinguished as Hermannus Contractus, i.e. the Lame (1013-1054), See also:German See also:scholar and chronicler, was the son of See also:Count Wolferad of Alshausen in See also:Swabia. Hermann, who became a See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
monk of the famous See also:abbey of Reichenau, is at once one of the most attractive and one of the most pathetic figures of See also:medieval See also:monasticism. Crippled and distorted by See also:gout from his childhood, he was deprived of the use of his legs; but, in spite of this, he became one of the most learned men of his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, and exercised a See also:great See also:personal and intellectual See also:influence on the numerous See also:band of scholars he gathered See also:round him. He died on the 24th of See also:September 1054, at the See also:family See also:castle of Alshausen near See also:Biberach. Besides the See also:ordinary studies of the monastic scholar, he devoted himself to See also:mathematics, See also:astronomy and See also:music, and constructed watches and See also:instruments of various kinds.
His See also:chief See also:work is a Chronicon ad annum 1054, which furnishes important and See also:original material for the See also:history of the See also:emperor See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry III. The first edition, from a MS. no longer extant, was printed by J. Sichard at See also:Basel in 1529, and reissued by Heinrich See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter in 1549; another edition appeared at St Blaise in 1790 under the supervision of Ussermann; and a third, as a result of the See also:collation of numerous See also:MSS., forms See also:part of vol. v. of See also:Pertz's Monumenta Germaniae historica. A German See also:translation of the last is contributed by K. F. A. Nobbe to See also:Die Geschichtsschreiber der deutschen Vorzeit (1st ed., See also:Berlin, 1851; 2nd ed., See also:Leipzig, 1893). The See also:separate lives of See also:Conrad II. and Henry III., often ascribed to Hermann. appear to have perished. His See also:treatises De mensura astrolabii and De utilitatibus astrolabii (to be found, on the authority of See also:Salzburg MSS., in Pez, See also:Thesaurus
enecdotorum novissimus, iii.) being the first contributions of moment
furnisbed by a See also:European to this subject, Hermann was for a time
considered the inventor of the See also:astrolabe. A didactic poem from his
See also:pen, De octo vitiis principalibus, is printed in See also:Haupt's Zeitschrift
See also:fur deutsches Alterthum (vol. xiii.); and he is sometimes credited
See also:Regina, and See also:Alma Redemptoris. A martyrologium by ermann was discovered by E. See also:Dummler in a MS. at See also:Stuttgart, and was published by him in " Das Martyrologium Notkers and See also:seine Verwandten " in Forschungen zur deutschen Geschichte, See also:xxv. (See also:Gottingen, 1885).
See H. Hansjakob, Herimann der Lahme (See also:Mainz, 1875) ; See also:Potthast, Bibliotheca med. aev. s.
End of Article: HERMANN OF REICHENAU (HERIMANNUS AUGIENSIS)
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