Tilo von Kulm

Tilo von Kulm, a Middle High German poet, who lived in the first half of the 14th c. and became a canon in the diocese of Samland in East Prussia. He is the author of the poem Von den siben Ingesigeln, which he completed in 1331 and dedicated to the High Master of the Teutonic Order (see Deutscher Orden), Luder von Braunschweig.

Von den siben Ingesigeln is a German abridgement of an unpublished Latin tract, Libellus septem sigillorum, formerly in Königsberg and now believed lost. The seven seals are interpreted as the symbols of the Incarnation, the Baptism, the Passion, the Resurrection, the Ascension, Pentecost, and the Day of Judgement, and the events of the life of Christ are treated in abstract fashion as symbols deprived of reality.