Arnold of Lubeck

Arnold of Lubeck first provost of Hildesheim, and then abbot of Lubeck. died in 1212. He continued the Slavonian Chronicle of Helmoldus from 1171 to 1209i which is very important for the history of Denmark and the introduction of Christianity into Livonia. It was printed at Frankfort in 1556, more fully at Lubeck in 1659, and with the last four chapters in' 1660 by Mabonius, Opusc. Hist. Lappenberg edited it in the Monum. Germ. SS. xxi; Laurent translated it into German (Berl. 1853). See Samus, Die Slavenchronik A mold (Lubeck, 1872); Schrodl, in Wetzer u.Welte's Kircheal. s.v. (B.P.)