Gozpert is a relatively minor figure in the history of the German church. However, during his professional tenure, he was Abbot over the monastery at Tegernsee in the Duchy of Bavaria. His replacement, St.Gotthard, would briefly assume his duties for him towards the end of hi life. The abbey-church itself was promoted to be an imperial abbey in 978, and its abbot would maintain considerable correspondence with the emperor and his court, as well as other members of the German aristocracy. At its zenith under Gozpert, the abbot of Tegernsee would lead the German church its is endowment of education and the arts.