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Aldhelm (auch Ealdhelm, Ældhelm, Adelelmus, Althelmus, Adelme) ist ein angelsächsischer männlicher Vorname. Der Name ist aus den Elementen Eald-/Ald- (=„alt, erfahren“) und -helm (=„Schutz, Verteidigung, Schützer, Herr“) zusammengesetzt.
- Aldhelm von Sherborne
Aldhelm von Sherborne / Malmesbury ( Ealdhelm, Ældhelm,...
- Aldhelm von Sherborne
Aldhelm ( Old English: Ealdhelm, Latin: Aldhelmus Malmesberiensis) ( c. 639 – 25 May 709), Abbot of Malmesbury Abbey, Bishop of Sherborne, and a writer and scholar of Latin poetry, was born before the middle of the 7th century. He is said to have been the son of Kenten, who was of the royal house of Wessex. [1]
Born: c. 639. Died: c. 709. Flourished: c.639 - 709. Aldhelm (born c. 639—died c. 709) was a West Saxon abbot of Malmesbury, the most learned teacher of 7th-century Wessex, a pioneer in the art of Latin verse among the Anglo-Saxons, and the author of numerous extant writings in Latin verse and prose. Aldhelm was trained in Latin and in Celtic ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
erster Abt in Malmesbury, Bischof von Sherborne. * um 639 in Wessex in England. † 25. Mai 709 in Doulting bei Malmesbury in England. Wandplastik in der katholischen Kirche St. Aldhelm in Malmesbury. Aldhelm war ein Verwandter - möglicherweise der Sohn - von König Kentwine von Wessex, er wurde in Malmesbury von Maildulph von Malmesbury erzogen.
Aldhelm was the first Englishman who cultivated classical learning with any success, and the first of whom any literary remains are preserved (Stubbs). Both from Ireland and from the Continent men wrote to ask him questions on points of learning. His chief prose work is a treatise,
St Alban's Head (corruption of St Aldhelms Head) is a headland located 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) southwest of Swanage, on the coast of Dorset, England. It is the most southerly part of the Purbeck peninsula, and comprises an outcrop of Portland Stone from the overlying Lower Purbeck Stone.
