Asser

Asser
/ah"seuhr/, n.
Tobias /toh buy"euhs/; Du. /taw bee"ahs/, 1838-1913, Dutch jurist and statesman: Nobel peace prize 1911.

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▪ Welsh monk
died c. 909

      Welsh monk, chiefly remembered as the friend, teacher, counsellor, and biographer of Alfred the Great. Born in Wales, he became a monk at St. David's Abbey, Pembrokeshire. In 886, eager to learn Latin, Alfred summoned Asser, who had acquired some reputation for learning, to his court in Wessex, and on St. Martin's Day (Nov. 11), 887, as Asser himself tells us, the Latin lessons began. Thereafter Asser divided his time between the court and his own community, and became Alfred's friend as well as his teacher. The king made him abbot of the monasteries of Congresbury and Banwell, Somerset, and later appointed him bishop of the diocese of Devon and Cornwall. At the time of his death he was bishop of Sherborne, Dorset.

      Asser's Life of King Alfred follows Alfred's career from his birth to his accession in 871, and describes in detail his reign and his wars, stopping abruptly in 887, 12 years before Alfred's death. For historical events, it draws largely on the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Some scholars have suggested that, in whole or in part, the Life of King Alfred is not the work of Asser, but this view has not been widely accepted.

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