Life of Saint Bernward, Bishop of Hildesheim

Vita sancti Bernwardi episcopi Hildesheimensis · Thangmar of Hildesheim (d. after 1022) · c. 1022-1030 · hagiography

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 Bernward Hildesheim' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Life%20of%20Saint%20Bernward%20Hildesheim&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 returns German translations of the paired lives of Bernward and Godehard (Die Lebensbeschreibung der Bischofe Bernward und Godehard von Hildesheim, 1858 and 1892) and German monographs, but no English translation. The one English work, Francis J. Tschan, Saint Bernward of Hildesheim, 3 vols (Notre Dame, 1942-1952), is a biography, not an edition-translation: its recorded contents are 'v. 1. His life and times; v. 2. His works and art; v. 3. Album' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Life%20of%20Saint%20Bernward%20Hildesheim&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 No English translation of Thangmar's Vita was located.

Thangmar's Life is the principal source for the Ottoman-Salian church at Hildesheim, for Bernward's artistic patronage (the bronze doors and column) and for the political education of a bishop in the entourage of the Ottonian court. English readers meet Bernward only through art-historical summaries, never the narrative itself.

Existing translations recorded

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

Edition / series
Die Lebensbeschreibung der Bischofe Bernward und Godehard von Hildesheim · Geschichtschreiber der deutschen Vorzeit, 11. Jahrhundert · 1858 language: de · German translation of Thangmar's Vita Bernwardi and Wolfhere's Vita Godehardi; not English

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Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Life of Saint Bernward, Bishop of Hildesheim” (latin gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/latin-thangmar-vita-bernwardi