Everardus Alemannus

Everardus, called Alemannus or Teutonicus (both meaning "the German"), was a German cleric, university professor (magister) and poet. He specialized in grammar and rhetoric and served as a rector. His greatest work was a Latin poem entitled Laborintus ("Labyrinth"). It is a didactic work that endeavours to teach grammar and the finer points of poetic composition: metre, rhyme and, most importantly, the various forms of medieval hexameter. Its modern editor, Edmond Faral, in Les arts poétiques du XIIe et du XIIIe siècle (Paris, 1924), dated it no later than 1280 and not earlier than 1208–1213.