Hygeburg
Illustration — Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, MS Clm 1086, folio 71v, includes the cipher with Hygeburg's name. Hygeburg (floruit 760–780), also Hugeburc, Hugeberc, Huneberc or Huneburc, was an Anglo-Saxon nun and hagiographer at the Alemannian monastery of Heidenheim. She is "the first known Englishwoman to have written a full-length literary work" and "the only woman author of a saint's life from the Carolingian period".
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Hygeburg
Anonymous Unknown author · MS Clm 1086, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München http: id=00064004 seite=146 · Public domain
- Born
- 730
- Died
- 778
- Occupation
- nun · writer · biographer
- Known for
- Vita Wynnebaldi · Vita Willibaldi
- Languages
- medieval Latin
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Illustration — Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, MS Clm 1086, folio 71v, includes the cipher with Hygeburg's name. Hygeburg (floruit 760–780), also Hugeburc, Hugeberc, Huneberc or Huneburc, was an Anglo-Saxon nun and hagiographer at the Alemannian monastery of Heidenheim. She is "the first known Englishwoman to have written a full-length literary work" and "the only woman author of a saint's life from the Carolingian period".
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Born in 730, died in 778.
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