Heinrich von Morungen Codex Manesse. Heinrich von Morungen
died 1222, near Leipzig
German minnesinger, one of the few
notable courtly poets from east-central
Germany.
A native of Thuringia, he spent much
of his later life in the service of Duke
Dietrich of Meissen. His poems, of which
some 33 are to be found in the
Heidelberg manuscript, are all devoted
to the fashionable cult of love. His
poems show more originality and
spontaneity than those of his
contemporaries because of his vivid
imagination and the intensity of his
emotion. As a result his poems appeal to
the modern reader more than those of any
other minnesinger with the exception of
Walther von der Vogelweide.
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