The New International Encyclopædia/Reinmar von Hagenau

REINMAR VON HAGENAU, rin'mär fōn hä'ge-nou (?–c.1210). A German poet, one of the first of the minnesingers, usually called Reinmar the Old. From Hagenau he went to Vienna and there taught Walther von der Vogelweide, with whom he may have made the Crusade of 1190. His poetry, artificial, sad, and 'pale-hued,' won him the title of the 'Nightingale of Hagenau' from Gottfried von Strassburg, a panegyric from his pupil Walther, and from Uhland high praise for its sentiment and diction. It is published in Lachmann and Haupt's Des Minnesangs Frühling. Consult: Schmidt, Reinmar der Hagenau (Strassburg, 1874); and Burdach, Reinmar der Alte und Walther von der Vogelweide (Leipzig, 1880).