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Hugeburc of Heidenheim (fl.761–780), also known as Hygeburg, was an English hagiographer and a member of the Benedictine community at the double monastery of Heidenheim in Bavaria, Germany. She authored two extant hagiographies of her male relatives between 778 and 780. Her Life of Willibald, Bishop of Eichstätt, recounts the events of his pilgrimage to the Holy Land, which were dictated to her by Willibald himself. She also wrote a posthumous Life of his brother Wynnebald, Abbot of Heidenheim, which includes Hugeburc’s own witness of his miracles. She concealed her name within a cipher between these two texts, which was discovered in the earliest extant manuscript (Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, MS Clm 1086, c.800) and decoded in 1931 by Bernhard Bischoff. Her Latin prose indicates the stylistic influence of Aldhelm.

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Hugeburc of Heidenheim, Lives of Wynnebald and Willibald

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  • Florence H. R. Scott

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Hugeburc of Heidenheim (fl.761–780), also known as Hygeburg, was an English hagiographer and a member of the Benedictine community at the double monastery of Heidenheim in Bavaria, Germany. She authored two extant hagiographies of her male relatives between 778 and 780. Her Life of Willibald, Bishop of Eichstätt, recounts the events of his pilgrimage to the Holy Land, which were dictated to her by Willibald himself. She also wrote a posthumous Life of his brother Wynnebald, Abbot of Heidenheim, which includes Hugeburc’s own witness of his miracles. She concealed her name within a cipher between these two texts, which was discovered in the earliest extant manuscript (Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, MS Clm 1086, c.800) and decoded in 1931 by Bernhard Bischoff. Her Latin prose indicates the stylistic influence of Aldhelm.