Do you know who emo Friesland is? The first student in the world

Emo of Friesland, who was born around 1175 and died in 1237, was a scholar and abbot. He likely came from the Dutch region of Groningen and was the first foreign student to study at Oxford University.

Emunovo, the first student in history

Emo Friesland began his studies at Oxford in 1190. He also studied at the University of Paris and Orléans. After his studies, he returned to Frisia to take up the position of schoolmaster in Westermund and parish priest in the Dutch city of Huizing.

Immunovo was the first student to study at Oxford, arriving in 1190. Immuno became the first prior student and wrote the first part of the abbey's chronicles, which gives us unique information about life in Friesland in the early XNUMXth century as well as its place in Europe more widely.

Emo life friesland

After his return as a teacher, he was a schoolmaster and shepherd in Groningen, and in 1208 he joined a company founded by his cousin Emo van Roemerswerf in Groningen in 1209, and obtained its connection with the order of Norbert of Xanten, ruler of the German city of Xanten, which is one of the most beautiful historical cities in Germany.

 Although Emo attempted to ground the causes of natural floods in philosophy with the theory of the four elements, he saw the flood as God's punishment of people, especially of farmers who refused to comply with their obligations. However, religious people always oppressed by new floods in recent years helped active farmers repair the dams.

His works:

He wrote his most important works in Latin in the Middle Ages and his successors Menko and Folkert suspended his works until the 1296 Chronicon Appbatum in Werum. 

The historical record begins with the foundation of the monastery in 1213. It is a rich source on the history of medieval Friesland, especially the Groningen region. The chronicle therefore contains the only eyewitness account of Marcellus I mentioned by Thomas Olivier, who from 1210 to 1213 in Friesland called for a crusade.

Emo also reflects an acquaintance's account that tells the tale of the Frisian participants in the Damietta Crusade in 1217 until their arrival in Acre. 

On his career and theological issues, he offers insight into the thinking and mental life of medieval religious art. 

Emo has been critically looked at with the ascetic monastic model and his own role as a priest and also with the issue of sirmony away. He would consider the woman leaving the monastery. His decision to re-“prison” the monastery was for him an example of human free will.

Emo Friesland also wrote works De anima (On the Soul), such as:

• Tree of Vices and Virtues Arbor vitiorum et virtutum
• (About different crimes) De differentia kriminum
• Differences between political and theological De differentia virtutum politicarum et theologicarum

All previous works are missing and have no trace of them to this day. Those in the ancient German cities closest to the Dutch border are constantly trying to search for them... perhaps something of them will be found one day.

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