- Letters,^1329 one hundred and thirty in number. They prove the high position he occupied,
for his correspondents are the greatest ecclesiastics of his day, such as Raban Maur, Hincmar of
Rheims, Einhard, Radbert, Ratramn and Gottschalk. His letters are interesting and instructive.^1330
- The Canons of Verneuil, 844.^1331 See above.
- The Three Questions, in 852.^1332 They relate to free will, the two-fold predestination, and
whether Christ died for all men or only for the elect. It was his contribution to the Gottschalk
controversy in answer to Charles the Bald’s request. In general he sides with Gottschalk, or rather
follows Augustin. In tone and style the book is excellent. - Life of St. Maximinus, bishop of Treves.^1333 It is in fifteen chapters and was written in
- It is only a working over of an older Vita, and the connection of Lupus with it is questionable.^1334
- Life of St. Wigbert, in thirty chapters, written in 836 at the request of Bun, abbot of
Hersfeld.^1335 It tells the interesting story of how Wigbert came from England to Germany at the
request of Boniface, how he became abbot of Fritzlar, where he died in 747, how he wrought
miracles and how miracles attended the removal of his relics to Hersfeld and were performed at
his tomb.
§ 172. Druthmar.
I. Christianus Druthmarus: Opera omnia, in Migne, Tom. CVI. col. 1259–1520.
II. Ceillier, XII. 419–423. Hist. Lit. de la France, V. 84–90. Bähr, 401–403.
Christian Druthmar was born in Aquitania in the first part of the ninth century. Before themiddle of the century he became a monk of the Benedictine monastery of old Corbie.^1336 About
850 he was called thence to the abbey of Stavelot-Malmédy, in the diocese of Liège, to teach the
Bible to the monks.^1337 It is not known whether he died there or returned to Corbie.
He was a very superior scholar for his age, well versed in Greek and with some knowledge
of Hebrew. Hence his epithet, the "Grammarian" (i.e. Philologist). His fame rests upon his
Commentary on Matthew’s Gospel,^1338 a work distinguished for its clearness of statement, and
particularly noticeable for its insistence upon the paramount importance of the historic sense, as
(^1329) Epistolae, Migne, CXIX. col. 431-610.
(^1330) "No other correspondence, for centuries, reveals such pleasant glimpses of a scholar’s life, or better illustrates the
difficulties which attended ita pursuits." Mullinger p. 166.
(^1331) Canones concilii in Verno, Migne, l.c. col. 611-620.
(^1332) Liber de tribus quaestionibus, ibid. col. 621-666.
(^1333) Vita Sancti Maximini, Episcopi Trevirensis, Migne, CXIX. col. 665-680.
(^1334) Cf. Baluze (Migne, l.c. col. 425) and Ebert, l.c. p. 208.
(^1335) Vita Sancti Wigberti, abbatis Fritzlariensis, Migne, l.c. 679-694.
(^1336) The monastery of Old Corbie was in Picardy, in the present department of Somme, nine miles by rail east of Amiens.
That of New Corbie was in Westphalia, and was founded by Louis the Pious in 822 by a colony of monks from Old Corbie.
(^1337) Stavelot is twenty-four miles southeast of Liège, in present Belgium. It is now a busy manufacturing place of four
thousand inhabitants. Its abbey was founded in 651, and its abbots had princely rank and independent jurisdiction down to the
peace of Luneville in 1801. The town of Malmédy lies about five miles to the northeast, and until 1815 belonged to the abbey
of Stavelot. It is now in Prussia.
(^1338) Expositio in Matthaeum Evangelistam, Migne, CVI. col. 1261-1504.