Notker

The first name Notger or Notker can refer to several persons, include several who were monks of the famous Swiss abbey of Sankt Gall:

Bishop Notker, Provost of St. Gall and later first Prince-Bishop of Liège
the Blessed Notker of St. Gall, also known as Notker Balbulus 'Notker the Stammerer'
Notker Labeo was a monk in St. Gall and author, also named "the German" (Teutonicus) in recognition of his services to the language.
Notker Physicus, surnamed piperis granum 'pepper grain'. Physician and painter, d. 12 November, 975. He received his surname on account of his strict discipline. Concerning his life we only know that in 956 or 957 he became cellarius, and in 965 hospitarius at St. Gall. Ekkehard IV extols several of his paintings, and mentions some antiphons and hymns of his composition (e.g. the hymn "Rector aeterni metuende secli"). He is probabIy identical with a "Notker notarius", who enjoyed great consideration at the court of Otto I on account of his skill in medicine, and whose knowledge of medical books is celebrated by Ekkehard. In 940 this Notker wrote at Quedlinburg the confirmation of the immunity of St. Gall. This is in accord with the great partiality later shown by the Ottos towards the monk, for example when they visited St. Gall in 972.
Notker, nephew of Notker Physicus, who died on 15 December, 975. We have no documentary information concerning him until his appointment as Abbot of St. Gall (971). Otherwise also the sources are silent concerning him, except that they call him "abba benignus" and laud his unaffected piety.

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This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.