As part of the conference on Pippin the Younger, which is being held from 24 to 26 March in memory of Prof. Dr Jörg Jarnut, former Vice President of Paderborn University, founder of IEMAN and member of the Historical Institute, Prof. Dr Stephan Müller (University of Vienna) will give a public evening lecture on Monday, 25 March at 8 p.m. in the Museum in der Kaiserpfalz (Am Ikenberg 1, 33098 Paderborn).
Stephan Müller, who himself taught Early German Studies at the University of Paderborn from 2006 to 2010, will speak about the beginning of German-language writing. In research, it is generally associated with the time of Charlemagne and his reforms, when Old High German texts and glossaries were written, which can be considered the earliest in the German language. However, Stephan Müller will show in his lecture that there are smaller traces of the German language even earlier, dating back to the time of Pippin, and - with a view to the manuscripts themselves - will outline a new attempt to explain the beginning of writing in German.
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