(fl. ca. 840-60). Carolingian exegete of the school of the Benedictine house of Saint-Germain at Auxerre, Haimo was the author of widely read commentaries on the Song of Songs, Revelation, and the Minor Prophets, as well as of many sermons. Commentaries on the Pauline Epistles attributed to Alcuin’s pupil Haimo of Halberstadt may also be his. Haimo studied with the Irish grammarian Murethach and was for a time the abbot of the monastery of Sasceium. He brought Carolingian biblical commentary to its most successful and influential point; his skillfully woven composite method was passed on through his pupil Heiric to Remigius of Auxerre. Commentaries on some books of the Bible, notably Genesis, are attributed to both Haimo and Remigius. The writings of Haimo of Auxerre published in the Patrologia Latina appear under the name of Haimo of Halberstadt. Haimo’s biblical interpretation is only now receiving the scholarly attention it deserves.
E. Ann Matter
[See also: AUXERRE; BIBLE, CHRISTIAN INTERPRETATION OF; REMIGIUS OF AUXERRE]
Haimo of Auxerre. Opera. PL 117-18.
--. Les dix-sept homelies de Haimon, ed. Karl Storchenegger. Zurich: Juris, 1973.
Contreni, John J. “Haimo of Auxerre, Abbot of Sasceium (Cessyles-Bois), and a New Sermon on 1 John V, 4-10.” Revue benedictine 85(1975):303-20.
--“The Biblical Glosses of Haimo of Auxerre and John Scottus Eriugena.” Speculum
51(1976):412-34.
Matter, E. Ann. “Exegesis and Christian Education: The Carolingian Model.” In Schools of Thought in the Christian Tradition, ed. Patrick Henry. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984, pp. 90-105.
Quadri, Riccardo. “Aimone de Auxerre alla luce dei Collectanea di Heiric di Auxerre.” Italia medioevale e umanistica 6 (1963):1-48.
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