Detmar (master reader)

Detmar , also Detmar von Lübeck († around / after 1395 ) was a Franciscan reading master at the Katharinenkloster Lübeck and a chronicler of the 14th century.

Life

A Detmar can be proven at the Katharinenkloster for the period from 1368 to 1380 as a lecturer and until 1394 as a member of the convent . Presumably this Detmar received after the bone-hewn uprisings of the year 1384 in Lübeck in the year 1385 the order to update the ratschronik of the Hanseatic city , which at that time only continued until the plague of the year 1350 . He worked on the period from 1105 to 1395, thus also including the 12th century period , which Arnold von Lübeck was one of the first Lübeck chroniclers to work on. This chronicle was then continued until 1482 by various chroniclers who remained anonymous, who are probably also attributable to the St. Catherine's Monastery or who could also come from among the council secretaries. The chronicle, written from the point of view of the Lübeck City Council, is one of the most important historical sources of Lübeck in the Middle Ages, alongside the chronicle of Hermann Korner .

literature

expenditure

• Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff (ed.): Chronicle of the Franciscan reading master Detmar based on the original and with additions from other writings. (The Lübeck Chronicles in Low German. First part)
  Volume 1, Perthes, Hamburg 1829: Digital copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library
  Volume 2, Perthes, Hamburg 1830: Digital copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library
• The chronicles of the cities of Lower Saxony. Lübeck
  Volume 1. Hirzel, Leipzig 1884 limited preview in the Google book search = archive.org - Complete series Volume 19
  • I. Detmar Chronicle from 1105–1276
  • II. Detmar Chronicle from 1105-1386
  • III. Detmar Chronicle from 1101–1395 with the continuation from 1395–1400 (initially until 1386)

Secondary literature

• Wilhelm Mantels :  Detmar . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 82.
• Olof Ahlers :  Detmar. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 618 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Antjekathrin Graßmann (Ed.): Lübeckische Geschichte. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1989, ISBN 3-7950-3203-2 , p. 299 ff.
• Thomas Sandfuchs: Detmar von Lübeck. In: Author's Lexicon , Volume 2, Col. 68f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Detmar in the catalog of the German National Library
• Detmar in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"