Ludwig Bieler

Life
1906-81; scholar and specialist in St. Patrick [Patrician studies]; note his place in wartime German propaganda in Ireland [check].

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Works
  • The Life and Legend of St. Patrick (Dublin: Clonmore & Reynolds 1949);
  • ‘The Place of St Patrick in Latin Language and Literature’, in Vigilia Christiania, vi (1952), pp.6-98;
  • ‘The Mission of Palladius’, in Traditio, VI (1948);
  • compiled bibl. survey of Hiberno-Latin scholarship, in Historische Zeitschrift, Sonderheft 2 (1965);
  • ‘The Classics in Ancient Ireland’, in Bolgar, Classical Influences &c (1971);
  • ‘Island of Scholars’ in Revue du Moyen Age Latin, viii (1952);
  • ‘The Humanism of St. Columbanus’, in Mélanges Colunbaniens (1950), pp.95-102;
  • ‘Lateinische Kultur Irlands im Mitteralter in der Forschung des Zwangzigster Jarhhunderts’, in Historische Zeitschrift, Sonderheft 2 (1965);
  • with D. Meehan, ed., Adamnan’s De Locis Sanctis (Dublin 1958);
  • The Irish Penitentials (Dublin 1963) [details];
  • Ireland: Harbinger of the Middle Ages (OUP 1963), 148pp.
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Bibliographical details
The Irish Penitentials, edited by Ludwig Bieler, with an appendix by D. A. Binchy [Scriptores latini hiberniae, 5] (Dublin: DIAS 1963, 1975), x, 367pp. [Latin or Old Irish texts and English translation on facing pages]

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Criticism
John J. O’Meara and Bernd [sic] Naumann, eds., Bieler Festschrift , Latin Script and Lettering AD 400-900 (Leiden 1976).

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References
George A Little, Dublin Before the Vikings (1957) writes, Ludwig Bieler, brilliant Patrician scholar, accepts guardedly the account in Jocelyn.

Celtic reading list: Ancient Hagiography and the Lives of St. Patrick, in Forma futuri: studi in onore de Cardinale Michele Pelligrino, ed. Antonio Maddalena (Turin: Bottega d’Erasmo 1975), pp.650-655; Christian Ireland’s Graeco-Latin Heritage [Studia Patristica 13] (Part II), ed. Elizabeth Livingstone (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 1975), pp.3-9; Ireland: Harbinger of the Middle Ages (New York: OUP n.d.); Patrick’s Synod, A Revision: Melange Offerts a Mademoiselle C. Mohrmann, ed. T. N. Hamess et. al. (Utrecht/Anvers: Spectrum Editeurs 1963), pp.96-102; The Celtic Hagiographer [Studia Patristica vol. 5] (1964), pp.243-265; The Irish Penitentials: Their Religious and Social Background [Studia Patristica vol. 18] (Part II) ed. by F. L. Cross. Berlin (1966), pp.329-339; The Life and Legend of St. Patrick (Dublin: Clonmore & Reynolds 1949). Compiled by Denise Inglis <denisei@alcon.acu.edu>.

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Booksellers: Hyland Books (Dec. 1996) lists Ireland, Harbinger of the Middle Ages [1st edn.] (OUP 1963), 148pp. Cathach Books (1996-97), lists Ireland, Harbinger of the Middle Ages [1st edn.] (OUP 1963), 148pp.

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