Vita sancti Corbiniani episcopi Baiuvariorum
· Arbeo of Freising (d. 783)
· c. 770-783
· 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 'Vita Corbiniani Arbeo' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Vita%20Corbiniani%20Arbeo&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 returns the MGH edition (Hannover 1920), a German-Latin popular edition (Schnell & Steiner, 2024), Arbeo's Life in the Latin-German Fontes Christiani series, Band 101 (Herder, 2025), and Lothar Vogel's two German monographs, but no English translation. The English-title search 'Life of Saint Corbinian' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Life%20of%20Saint%20Corbinian&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 returns the same four German items and nothing in English. The Latin text is in the verified dMGH scan of MGH SS rer. Germ. 13 (https://www.dmgh.de/mgh_ss_rer_germ_13/index.htm). No English translation was located.
The Corbinian Life describes the Frankish church's takeover of Bavarian Christianity, the founding of Freising and a papal episode at Rome; it is the companion piece to the Emmeram Life and equally hard Latin. Its only modern translations are German, so the English reader has no access to Arbeo's second hagiographic experiment.
Vogel, Lothar. "Vom Werden eines Heiligen Eine Untersuchung der Vita Corbiniani des Bischofs Arbeo von Freising." Berlin Boston De Gruyter, [2015]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99158716245403941
Cite: Tergwame, “Life of Saint Corbinian, Bishop of the Bavarians”
(latin gap dossier), 2026.
https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/latin-arbeo-vita-corbiniani