ADALBERT, Archbishop of Magdeburg. - A Benedictine, of Lotharingian origin. Sent in 961 by William, archbishop of Mainz and son of Otto I, as missionary bishop to the Russian people, he returned the following year, having failed in the task entrusted to him. In 966 he was elected abbot of Weissenburg in Alsace, and in 968 first archbishop of Magdeburg, when this see was established by Otto as the center of the German eastern mission among the Slavs beyond the Elbe. A learned man and an exemplary pastor, he worked much for the conversion of the Wends. He died on 20 June 981 during a pastoral visitation at Zscherben near Merseburg, and was buried in the cathedral of Magdeburg. He had no public cult, and is absent from the Martyr. Romanum, but by many authors he is numbered among the saints.

A. is the author of the continuation of the Chronicle of Regino of Prüm, for the years 907-67 (MGH, Script., I, pp. 613-20).

Bibliography

BIBL.: The ancient anonymous life may be found in J. Mabillon, Acta SS. ord. s. Ben., V, pp. 573-84. Important for the sources and for the literature: J. Clauss, Die Heiligen des Elbats, Düsseldorf 1935, p. 185.

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Adalbert, Archbishop of Magdeburg

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