HELMOLD
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V13,
Page 249
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
HELMOLD
, an historian of the 12th See also:century, was a See also:priest at Bosau near Plon
.
He was a friend of the two bishops of See also:Oldenburg, Vicelin (d
.
1154) and Gerold (d
.
1163), who did much to Christianize the Slays
.
At See also:Bishop Gerold's instigation Helmold wrote his Chronica Slavorum, a See also:history of the See also:conquest and See also:conversion of the See also:Slavonic countries from the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of See also:Charlemagne
.
For the See also:life and times of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry the See also:Lion, See also:duke of See also:Saxony, Helmold's See also:chronicle, as that of a contemporary who had exceptional means for gaining See also:information, is of first-See also:rate importance
.
The history was continued down to 1209 by See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
Abbot See also:Arnold of See also:Lubeck
.
The Chronica were first edited by Siegmund Schorkel (See also:Frankfort a
.
M., 1556)
.
The best edition is by J
.
M
.
See also:Lappenberg in Mon
.
Germ. hist. scriptores, xxi
.
(1869)
.
For See also:critical See also:works on the Chronica see A
.
See also:Potthast, Bibliotheca hist. med. aevi, s
.
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