Lamprecht von Regensburg

Lamprecht von Regensburg, a citizen of Regensburg in the first half of the 13th c. who was influenced by the pulpit oratory of Berthold von Regensburg, and became a Franciscan monk. Before his entry into the Order he wrote c.1240 Sanct Francisken Leben, a rendering in German verse of the life of the saint (Vita S. Francisci, c.1230) by Thomas of Celano. Later, as a Franciscan friar, he composed c.1250 Die Tochter Syon, a poetic allegory of the mystical union of the soul with God. The soul is the Daughter of Zion, who is brought to Jesus by Faith and Hope, by Wisdom and Charity, by Love, and finally by Mercy. The source of the poem is a Latin prose work, Filia Syon. A much shorter version in Swiss dialect, written at the end of the 13th c. or beginning of the 14th c. and known as Die alemannische Tochter Syon, once attributed to Der Mönch von Heilsbronn, is of unknown authorship.