Arnold of Lübeck
German abbot and chronicler
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| Intro | German abbot and chronicler | |
| Places | Germany | |
| was | Historian Writer Chronicler Translator | |
| Work field | Literature Social science | |
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| Religion: | Christianity | |
| Birth | 1 January 1200 | |
| Death | 27 June 1211Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany (aged 11 years) |
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Arnold of Lübeck (died 1211–1214) was a Benedictine abbot, a chronicler, the author of the Chronica Slavorum and advocate of the papal cause in the Hohenstaufen conflict. He was a monk at St. Ägidien monastery in Braunschweig, then from 1177 the first abbot of the newly founded St. John's monastery in Lübeck.