Kurzmann, Andreas#
Kurzmann, Andreas; lived at the Cistercian monastery of Neuberg (Upper Styria) around 1396; priest at the hospital at the Semmering. Wrote German religious poetry in rhyming couplets, e.g. two legends and the lament of the Virgin Mary, "Soliloquium Mariae cum Jesus". Also translated Latin scriptures.
Literature#
P. Wiesinger, Schreibung und Aussprache im aelteren Fruehneuhochdeutschen. Zum Verhaeltnis von Graphem-Phonem-Phon am bairisch-oesterreichischen Beispiel von A. K. um 1400, 1996.