Gottfried of Admont

Gottfried of Admont^[1] (died 1165) was the Benedictine abbot of Admont Abbey from 1137 until his death. He is considered to be a reformer and the founder of the "school of Admont", and he is also credited with greatly improving the abbey's library.^[2]

He was an influential figure, undertaking with Otto of Freising and Berthold of Brixen a papal commission relative to the proposed bishopric of Seckau.^[3] He strongly backed St Eberhard, who became bishop of Salzburg in 1146.

Many homilies are attributed to him,^[4] taking the character of exegesis;^[5] it is now doubted whether he was the author of all of them. His brother Irimbert was a successor as abbot, and may have written some of them.^[6]

References

• Stephan Borgehammar, Who Wrote the Admont Sermon Corpus - Gottfried the Abbot, his Brother Irimbert, or the Nuns pp. 47–51 in Jacqueline Hamesse (editor) De l'homélie au sermon: Histoire de la prédication médiévale