Konrad Kügelin Explained

Konrad Kügelin (1366–1428) was a Roman Catholic monk, provost of the, and hagiographer of Elizabeth of Reute.

Biography

Kügelin was a Canon Regular of Saint Augustine who lived in Bad Waldsee, Württemberg from 1366 to 1428.^{[1] [2]} He was a strong proponent of the Latin: [[Devotio Moderna]] reform movement.^[3]

Kügelin was the confessor of Elizabeth of Reute, a mystic and stigmatic. After her death, he wrote German: Das Leben der guten Beth, an account in prose of her life and visions which Kügelin intended for the benefit of the other religious sisters of Reute.^[4] In writing it, Kügelin drew heavily on Raymond of Capua's Life of Catherine of Siena, borrowing substantial portions. Originally kept in the convent at Reute, the hagiography was first published in 1881.

Notes and References

1. Book: Garland . Henry . Garland . Mary . The Oxford Companion to German Literature . 1997 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-815896-7 . 522.
2. Web site: Bildnis Konrad Kügelin . museum-digital:baden-württemberg . 5 January 2024 . de.
3. Book: Williams-Krapp . Werner . The Vernacular Spirit: Essays on Medieval Religious Literature . 2002 . Palgrave Macmillan US . 978-0-230-10719-9 . 254 . 5 January 2024 . en . The Erosion of a Monopoly: German Religious Literature in the Fifteenth Century.
4. Ehrenschwendtner . Marie-Luise . Jerusalem behind Walls: Enclosure, Substitute Pilgrimage, and Imagined Space in the Poor Clares’ Convent at Villingen . The Mediaeval Journal . July 2013 . 3 . 2 . 12 . 10.1484/J.TMJ.1.103437 . 5 January 2024 . en . 2033-5385.