!!!Gerhoh von Reichersberg

b. Polling (Germany), 1093, 
d. Reichersberg (Upper Austria), June 27, 1169, ecclesiastical autho. 
In 1132 Augustine canon regular and provost in Reichersberg, temporary 
exile in 1167. Works include commentaries to psalms and theological 
writings ("De investigatione Antichristi"), in which he developed a 
distinct christological doctrine and addressed ecclesiastical policy 
and questions of reform according to the views of the Cluniac 
movement. G. v. R.'s monastery annals were used by  Magnus von 
Reichersberg along with other sources for his chronicle of 
Reichersberg.

!Literature
E. Meuthen, Kirche und Heilsgeschichte bei G. v. R., 1959; 
P. Classen, G. v. R., 1960; Tusculum-Lexikon, %%sup 3/%1982.



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