biography
pronunciation:
[ulfilas, wulfila]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.311–83)
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| biography:
| Gothic translator of the Bible. Consecrated a missionary bishop to his fellow countrymen by Eusebius of Nicomedia in 341, after seven years' labour he was forced to migrate with his converts across the Danube. He devised the Gothic alphabet, and carried out the first translation of the Bible into a Germanic language (c.350). |
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