Haimo of Auxerre (died c. 865) was a member of the

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. Although he was the author of numerous Biblical commentaries and theological texts, little of his life is known today. Haimo defended the

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and condemned those who considered that the

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was just a "sign". This realism applied also to his

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. His exegetical commentary was an important source for

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's letter on the life of the Antichrist. Several texts, including those published in the ''Patrologia Latina'', previously attributed to Haymo of Halberstadt, are now believed to be his work. Haimo's

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writings are indexed as part of Burton Van Name Edwards's project, "The Manuscript Transmission of Carolingian Biblical Commentaries."

Notes

References

* ''Medieval France: An Encyclopedia'', Ed. William W. Kibler and Grover A. Zinn, Garland Publishing Inc., 1995.

Editions

* Ed. Abbé Migne, ''

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'', 116, 117, 131, à consulter su
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* Ed. R. Gryson, ''Haymo Autissiodorensis. Annotatio libri Isaiae prophetae'' (= Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis, 135C), Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2014 (). * Ed. R. Gryson, ''Haymo Autissiodorensis. Annotatio libri Iezechielis imperfecta'' (= Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis, 135E), Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2015 (). French biblical scholars French Benedictines Benedictine Biblical scholars Benedictine scholars Benedictine theologians Burgundian monks French Christian monks 860s deaths Year of birth unknown Year of death uncertain Writers from the Carolingian Empire People from Burgundy (French region) 9th-century French people 9th-century Christian monks 9th-century Christian theologians 9th-century Latin writers {{theologian-stub