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editChristina Ebner (also spelled Christine Ebner; 26 March 1277 - 27 December 1356) was a German nun and writer.
Biography
editBorn in Nuremberg, she entered the Dominican convent at Engelthal in the vicinity of Nuremberg in 1289, at the age of 12.[1] Less than a year later, she fell gravely ill. This affliction would reappear up to three times a year for the next decade. Also later, she frequently suffered from illness. At the age of thirteen, Christine began experincing frequent religious visions, which her confessor, Father Konrad of Füssen, O.P., encouraged her to write about. And so she began writing her first book, the 'life of graces' ('Gnadenleben'), in 1317. She continued to work on it at least until 1324.
Between 1344 and 1352, Christine Ebner wrote a book of revelations (“Offenbarungen”).[1] In it, she deals with historical and political events of the time such as the riots at Nuremberg in 1348; the earthquake of 1348; the Black Death; the Flagellants' processions of 1349; and the long quarrel between Louis the Bavarian and the Holy See. Christine does not limit herself to the role of a bystander. Instead, she takes a deep interest in the events, develops her own opinion about them and even actively tries to influence their course.
n 1351 she was visited by Heinrich von Nördlingen, an enthusiastic propagator of mystic spirituality and literature, who gave her Mechthild's of Magdeburg mystic work "Das fließende Licht der Gottheit" ("The Flowing light of the godhead").
The sister-book "Von der genaden uberlast" ("Of the graces excessive burden"), presumably written between 1328 and 1346, has also been attributed to Christine Ebner based on a 1451 manuscript.
Christine Ebner died at Engelthal, on 27 December 1356.
- ^ See: Siegfried Ringler: Ebner, Christine. In: Verfasserlexikon. 2nd edition, tom 2 (1980), col. 297–302; Susanne Bürkle: Ebner, Christine. In: Walther Killy: Literaturlexikon. [2. vollst. überarb. Aufl., Bd. 3] 2nd edition, tom 3. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2008, p. 163b-165b.