The theme for CEPT stamps in 1983 was "Historic Events". Liechtenstein decided to honour Notker
the Stammerer (Notker Balbulus) ( 840 – 6 April 912), Also called Notker
I, Notker the Poet or Notker of Saint Gall, was a musician, author, poet, and Benedictine monk at the Abbey
of Saint Gall in modern Switzerland. He is commonly accepted to be the "Monk of Saint Gall" (Monachus
Sangallensis) who wrote De
Carolo Magno, a book of
anecdotes about the Emperor Charlemagne.
Notker was born around 840, to a distinguished family. He would seem to
have been born in the modern canton of Saint Gall in Switzerland. He became a monk there and is mentioned as
librarian in 890 and as master of guests in 892–4. He was chiefly active as a
teacher, and displayed refinement of taste as poet and author.
He completed Erchanbert's
chronicle, arranged a martyrology, composed a metrical biography of Saint
Gall, and authored other works.
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