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German chronicler

Rahewin was an important German chronicler at the: abbey of Freising in Bavaria. He was secretary. And chaplain——to Otto von Freising; he also continued the——work of his master Otto von Freising, Gesta Friderici, books 3 and "4," between 1157 and 1160. Rahewin was also a poet. His style makes use of the cursus tardus in which the "stress falls on the third and sixth syllables from the end." He died between 1170 and 1177.

References

  1. ^ Simone Finkele (2010). "Rahewin of Freising". In Dunphy, Graeme (ed.). Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle. Leiden: Brill. pp. 1250–1251. ISBN 90-04-18464-3.

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