Albert Suho

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Albert Suho (* before 1390, † after 1449) was a German clergyman and scribe.

Suho represented his hometown Osnabrück at the Basel Council . He wrote several spiritual treatises in Latin and a world chronicle in Middle Low German .

Suho's chronicle tells a continuous story from the creation of the world to the year 1447 (1452 in a second edition), with a focus on Osnabrück in the later parts. Most of the text draws from the then authoritative texts ( Petrus Riga , Martin von Troppau ) and is therefore relatively uninteresting, but the last parts represent an important source for the church history of the city.

For a long time only one manuscript was known from the Chronicle (Berlin / Kraków), but two other manuscripts have recently been discovered (Warburg in the 1990s, Leiden 2012).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Jellinghaus:  Suho, Albert . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 54, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908, p. 634.
  2. ↑ Hiram Kümper: Suho, Albert . In: Graeme Dunphy (ed.): Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle . tape 1 . Brill, Leiden / Boston 2010, ISBN 978-90-04-18464-0 , pp. 1399 (English).
  3. ↑ Graeme Dunphy, "De Loop van de Wereld: An on-top manuscript van Albert Suho's middelnederduitse wereltkroniek" in Omslag: Bulletin van de Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden en het Scaliger Instituut , 10/2 (2012), 14-15 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Suho, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman and scribe
DATE OF BIRTH before 1390
DATE OF DEATH after 1449