!!!Arbeo

Arbeo, 
d. May 4, 783 (784?), priest from the Meran/Merano (South Tyrol) area, 
from 765 Bishop of Freising (Bavaria), where he is buried. Author of 
the lives of the Bavarian saints Corbinian and Emmeram. Said to be the 
first writer of German descent. Ancient historiography credits him 
with having commissioned the first German book, the "Abrogans", a 
Latin-Old High German glossary, of which several versions exist. The 
title of the book corresponds to its first entry "abrogans" (modest).

!Literature
Deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters (lex.) - Edition: B. 
Bischoff et al. (eds.), 1977; L. Vogel, Vom Werden eines Heiligen. 
Eine Untersuchung der Vita Corbiniani des Bischofs A. von Freising, 
2000.



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