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==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
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]],[[Cicero]],<ref name=":0" /> and other authors of antiquity. This rich collection perished in 1729, when the abbey was destroyed by fire.
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