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          Born
          18 July 1013
          Saulgau, Swabia, Germany
          Died
          24 September 1054
          Reichenau, Germany
          Summary
          Hermann of Reichenau was a German mathematician who important for the transmission of Arabic mathematics, astronomy and scientific instruments into central Europe.

          Biography

          Hermann of Reichenau is also called Hermann the Lame or Hermannus Contractus.

          His parents were Count Wolverad II von Altshausen-Veringen and his wife Hiltrud. They were a noble family from Upper Swabia, a district north of the Bodensee (also known as Lake Constance).

          Small town lawyer and amateur historian.

        1. Small town lawyer and amateur historian.
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        4. His life was marked by earnest devotion to his clerical duties and a loving interest in the poor, the sick, and in little children.
        5. Abraham Lincoln to what is now, through his com- mendation, a poem of Hermannus Contractus, for which see "The Latin Hymn Writers and their Hymns.

          6. The lake has a western arm, west of the city of Konstanz, and in this is situated the island of Reichenau. This island, about 5 km long and 1.5 km wide, was the artistic and literary centre of south west Germany during this period and was the site of a famous Benedictine monastery which had been founded there in 724.

          This monastery, along with several other Benedictine monasteries, played an important role in scholar