Eginhard
Eginhard (fl. c.800–20). German abbot and architect. He has been credited with the famous plan of the monastery of St Gall in Switzerland, with its double-apsed basilican church and well-organized disposition of parts.
Bibliography
W. Papworth (1852);
Sturgis et al. (1901–2)
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