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Notker Labeo

Notker Labeo (nōt'kur lä'bēō) [key], c.950–1022, German monk, also known as Teŭtonicus. He was a teacher at St. Gall. Notker translated into Old High German Boethius' Consolations of Philosophy, Capella's Marriage of Mercury and Philology, Pope Gregory I's Morals, and Aristotle's Categories. He was one of the founders of German vernacular literature.

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