iPedia Free Information Center

Information about Hermannus Contractus

Enlarge picture
An artistic rendering of "Herman the Lame" as he is sometimes called
Hermann of Reichenau (also called Hermannus Contractus or Hermannus Augiensis) (1013 July 18 – 1054 September 24) was an 11th century scholar, composer, and music theorist. Hermannus was a son of the duke of Altshausen. He was crippled by a paralytic disease from early childhood. He spent most of his life in the abbey of Reichenau, an island on Lake Constance. Hermannus contributed to all four arts of the quadrivium. He was renowned as a musical composer (among his surviving works are officia for St. Afra and St. Wolfgang). He also wrote a treatise on the science of music, several works on geometry and arithmetics and astronomical treatises (including instructions for the construction of an astrolabe, at the time a very novel device in Christian Europe). As a historian, he wrote a detailed chronicle from the birth of Christ to his own present day, for the first time compiling the events of the 1st millennium AD scattered in various chronicles in a single work, ordering them after the reckoning of the Christian era. He was beatified (cultus confirmed) in 1863.

External links

10th century - 11st century - 12nd century
980s  990s  1000s  - 1010s -  1020s  1030s  1040s
1010 1011 1012 - 1013 - 1014 1015 1016

Lists of leaders
State leaders - Sovereign states

..... Click the link for more information.
July 18 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

Events


..... Click the link for more information.
10th century - 11st century - 12nd century
1020s  1030s  1040s  - 1050s -  1060s  1070s  1080s
1051 1052 1053 - 1054 - 1055 1056 1057

Lists of leaders
State leaders - Sovereign states

..... Click the link for more information.
September 24 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

Events

  • 622 - Prophet Muhammad completes his hegira from Mecca to Medina.

..... Click the link for more information.
As a means of recording the passage of time, the 11th century was that century which lasted from 1001 to 1100.

In the history of European culture, this period is considered the early part of the High Middle Ages.
..... Click the link for more information.
This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject.
Please help recruit one or [ improve this article] yourself. See the talk page for details.
..... Click the link for more information.
Altshausen
Gate building of Altshausen Palace.
Coat of arms Location

..... Click the link for more information.
State Party
The template is . Please use instead.
This usage is deprecated. Please replace it with .
'''The template is deprecated. Please use instead.
..... Click the link for more information.
Location Germany, Switzerland, Austria
Coordinates Coordinates:

Primary sources
..... Click the link for more information.
The quadrivium comprised the four subjects, or arts, taught in medieval universities after the trivium. The word is Latin, meaning "the four ways" or "the four roads": the completion of the liberal arts.
..... Click the link for more information.
Saint Afra (died 304) was a Christian martyr.

Biography

Although many different accounts of her life exist, the most widely known is that of an unreliable Carlovingian version, the Acts of St Afra, set down many centuries later.
..... Click the link for more information.
see St. Wolfgang (village).

Saint Wolfgang

St. Wolfgang (painting, c.1490)
The Almoner
Born 924,
Died 994
Venerated in Roman Catholic Church
Canonized 1052
Feast October 31
..... Click the link for more information.
Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism.
If you are prevented from editing this page, and you wish to make a change, please discuss changes on the talk page, request unprotection, log in, or .
..... Click the link for more information.
Geometry (Greek γεωμετρία; geo = earth, metria = measure) is a part of mathematics concerned with questions of size, shape, and relative position of figures and with properties of space. Geometry is one of the oldest sciences.
..... Click the link for more information.
Arithmetic or arithmetics (from the Greek word αριθμός = number) is the oldest and most elementary branch of mathematics, used by almost everyone, for tasks ranging from simple day-to-day counting to advanced science and business
..... Click the link for more information.
Astronomy is the scientific study of celestial objects (such as stars, planets, comets, and galaxies) and phenomena that originate outside the Earth's atmosphere (such as the cosmic background radiation).
..... Click the link for more information.
astrolabe is a historical astronomical instrument used by classical astronomers, navigators, and astrologers. Its many uses included locating and predicting the positions of the Sun, Moon, planets and stars; determining local time given local longitude and vice-versa; surveying;
..... Click the link for more information.
Generally a chronicle (Latin chronica, from Greek χρονικά (from χρόνος
..... Click the link for more information.
1st millennium BC - 1st millennium - 2nd millennium In the Gregorian calendar, the 1st millennium is the period of one thousand years that commenced with the year 1 of the Common Era. There is no "year zero" in the Gregorian calendar.
..... Click the link for more information.
Anno Domini (Latin: (In)The year of (Our) Lord[1]), abbreviated as AD or A.D., defines an epoch based on the traditionally reckoned year of the conception or birth of Jesus of Nazareth.
..... Click the link for more information.
18th century - 19th century - 20th century
1830s  1840s  1850s  - 1860s -  1870s  1880s  1890s
1860 1861 1862 - 1863 - 1864 1865 1866

:
Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -
..... Click the link for more information.
The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive is an award-winning website maintained by John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson and hosted by the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
..... Click the link for more information.


This article is copied from an article on Wikipedia.org - the free encyclopedia created and edited by online user community. The text was not checked or edited by anyone on our staff. Although the vast majority of the wikipedia encyclopedia articles provide accurate and timely information please do not assume the accuracy of any particular article. This article is distributed under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License.
Herod_Archelaus


page counter