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Notker Labeo

Type Figure Region Holy Roman Empire Time 950–1022 Also known as Notker the German

A 10th–11th-century scholar and teacher at the Abbey of St Gall in Switzerland, famed for translating classical Latin texts into Old High German as '…

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  1. 960–990St Gall · St GallBorn near Sulz, he entered the Abbey of St Gall as a child to study Latin, grammar and theology under the monastery's scholars, showing a talent for languages.
  2. 1001–1022St Gall · St GallHe headed the monastic school, translated Latin classics such as Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy and Martianus Capella's Marriage of Mercury and Philology into Old High German, and compiled grammatical works, spreading scholarship across the German-speaking lands.

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