Life of Saint Liudger, Bishop of Munster

Vita sancti Liudgeri episcopi Monasteriensis · Altfrid of Munster (d. 874) · c. 840-850 · hagiography

Latin · domain: latin-hagiography-passions · researched 2026-11-14

no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.

Why this is in the register

HOLLIS Primo keyword search 'Life of Saint Liudger' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Life%20of%20Saint%20Liudger&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 returns German monographs, a Latin facsimile of the manuscript (Codices selecti 95, Graz 1993) and a Middle Dutch verse Life (Verloren, 2009), but no English translation. The English-oriented search 'Liudger life English translation' returns no record (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Liudger%20life%20English%20translation&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 No English translation of Altfrid's Vita was located; the only vernacular renderings recorded are German, Dutch and Middle Dutch.

Altfrid's Liudger is the fundamental source for the Frisian and Saxon missions after Boniface, for the founding of Munster and for the conversion of the Saxons in the generation of the Saxon wars. It is the only missionary Life of the Carolingian period with no English version, while Willibrord, Boniface and Columbanus all have one.

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
Het leven van de heilige bisschop Sint Ludger: de Middelnederlandse tekst · Middelnederlandse tekstedities 11 · 2009 language: nl · edition of a Middle Dutch verse Life of Liudger; a vernacular derivative, not a translation of Altfrid's Latin

Electronic text

No open electronic text was verified for this work. The Greek/Coptic/Geʿez may exist only in a print or subscription edition (Migne, CSCO, TLG, CMCL).

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Altfrid of Munster — 2 record(s); match basis author_only.

Record	Citation
Die Lebensbeschreibungen des.hl.Willibrord [by Alcuin], Gregors von Utrecht [by Liudger], Liudgers [by Altfrid], und Willehads von Bremen [by Anschaire]. Nach den ausgaben der Monumenta Germaniae übersetzt von W. Wattenbach, G. Grandaur, M. Laurent · 1888 · ger	"Die Lebensbeschreibungen des.hl.Willibrord [by Alcuin], Gregors von Utrecht [by Liudger], Liudgers [by Altfrid], und Willehads von Bremen [by Anschaire]. Nach den ausgaben der Monumenta Germaniae übersetzt von W. Wattenbach, G. Grandaur, M. Laurent." Leipzig : [s.n.], 1888. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5n…
LIUDGER IN SEINER ZEIT · 1984 · ger	"LIUDGER IN SEINER ZEIT." MÜNSTER : VERLAG @REGENSBERG, 1984. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990002920730203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Life of Saint Liudger, Bishop of Munster” (latin gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/latin-altfrid-vita-liudgeri