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'''Frowin of Engleberg''', in German ''Frowin von Engelberg'' (died 11 March 1178) was a Swiss German [[Benedictine]] abbot. Though never formally [[beatified]], Frowin was styled "Blessed" by some chroniclers.<ref>See ''[[Acta Sanctorum]]'', March, IX, 683.</ref> He was the second abbot of the [[Engelberg Abbey|Monastery of Engelberg]] in present-day Switzerland
[[File:Abbot Frowin - Title Page of St. Gregory's "Moralia"- Job Visited by His Three Friends (ab - 1955.74 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif|thumb|Title Page of St. Gregory's "Moralia"- Job Visited by His Three Friends; attributed to Frowin (Cleveland Museum of Art)]]
==Life==
Of the early life of Frowin nothing is known, save that he is claimed as a monk of their community by the historians of [[Einsiedeln Abbey]] in Switzerland and [[St. Blasius Abbey]] in the [[Black Forest]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=1945 |title=Engelberger Klosterkunst |url=https://www.e-periodica.ch/cntmng?pid=swz-003%3A1945%3A0%3A%3A37 |access-date=16 December 2022 |website=[[E-Periodica]]}}</ref> He is first mentioned in 1441 as a monk of St.Blasius Abbey and it is assumed that he succeeded [[Adelhelm]] as the Abbot of the [[monastery of Engelberg]] in 1443.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Engelberg) |first=Frowin (Abbot of |url=https://books.google.ch/books/about/Frowini_abbatis_Montis_Angelorum_Explana.html?id=wvQ-zgEACAAJ&redir_esc=y |title=Frowini abbatis Montis Angelorum Explanatio Dominicae orationis: additus Tractatus de veritate |date=1998 |publisher=Brepols |year=1998 |isbn=2-503-04341-0 |pages=XI |language=la}}</ref> As the abbey was seen in danger, he ordered the ecclesiastical buildings to be surrounded by a wall also requested and received the monastery independency to elect its abbot.<ref name=":1" /> During his tenure Engelberg became a [[Double monastery]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hodel |first=Urban |title=Engelberg (Kloster) |url=https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/articles/008557/2011-03-31/ |access-date=2022-12-17 |website=Swiss Historical Dictionary |language=de}}</ref> which included both a wing for monks and nuns.<ref name=":1" />
Through his efforts the possessions and privileges, civil and ecclesiastical, of the abbey were greatly increased, while its renown as a home of learning, art, and piety spread far and wide. He established a famous school in his abbey, in which besides the ''[[Trivium (education)|trivium]]'' and ''[[quadrivium]]'', philosophy and theology were likewise taught. The library which he collected possessed, for those days, a vast number of manuscripts. According to a list that he left, it contained [[Homer]],
==Works==
Frowin not only copied books for his library, but composed several. Two of these, a commentary on the Lord's Prayer, and a treatise in seven books, "De Laude Liberi Arbitrii" ("In Praise of Free Will", but in reality a discussion of the chief theological questions of his day, directed, it is thought, against the errors of [[Abelard]]) are still extant, having been discovered by [[Mabillon]] in the archives of Einsiedeln. Frowin's other works, Commentaries on the Ten Commandments and various parts of Holy Scripture, are lost.<ref>Gillian R. Evans -Augustine on Evil - 1990 Page 177 "In the next generation there were some who took Anselm's line, in a modified way: Honorius Augustodunensis, an admirer who had met Anselm and heard him speak, and later in the twelfth century Frowin of Engelberg"</ref><ref>[[Giles Constable]] ''Monks, hermits, and crusaders in Medieval Europe'' 1988 Page 176 "and FROWIN OF ENGELBERG, De laude liberi arbitrii Ubri septem, of which the prologue and table of contents (only) are published in Pat. lat., ..."</ref><ref>Achard (de Saint-Victor) Works ed. Hugh Feiss - 2001 - Page 25 "Often we find allusions to Achard's metaphysics of participation and unity. Frowin of Engelberg incorporated part of Sermon 13 into his De laude liberi arbitrii,..."</ref> One of the volumes of the bible of three volumes of Frowin, is deposited in the [[Abbey library of Saint Gall|Abbey library]] of [[St. Gallen|St.Gallen]], Switzerland.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Stiftsbezirk St. Gallen - Bibel des Abtes Frowin von Engelberg |url=https://www.stiftsbezirk.ch/de/bibel-frowin |access-date=2022-12-17 |website=www.stiftsbezirk.ch}}</ref> The Bible is written on [[parchment]].<ref name=":2" /> He also wrote one of the first [[Latin]]-[[German language|German]] dictionaries.<ref name=":0" />
==Veneration==
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