Andreas of Regensburg

Andreas von Regensburg (* around 1380 in Reichenbach ; † after 1442 in Regensburg ) was a Bavarian chronicler and historian .

life and work

Andreas was born as Andreas Müller or Müllner around 1380 in Reichenbach in the central Regental . In the local Benedictine monastery he received his first elementary lessons before he went to school in Straubing in the mid-1390s . In 1401 he joined the Augustinian Canon Monastery of St. Mang in Stadtamhof, which was founded in 1138 . His ordination was Andreas 1405 in Eichstaett . In St. Mang he was archivist for many years before he became dean in 1438 at the latest . Andreas was thus the monastery director at the spiritual and material climax in the history of St. Mang. He died on December 7th between 1443 and 1457.

The great historical works of Andreas von Regensburg were mainly written in the 1420s. His seven-part main work deals with the Council of Constance (1414–1418), the most important event of its time. His chronicle of the popes and emperors takes particular account of the diocese of Regensburg . With the Chronica de principibus terrae Bavarorum (1425–1428) he wrote the first ever Bavarian chronicle for Duke Ludwig VII of Bavaria-Ingolstadt and translated it into German as a chronicle by the princes of Bavaria . He dealt with the danger of the Hussites , which particularly affected Eastern Bavaria, in a chronicle with many documents. Andreas' Diarium sexennale is particularly interesting for the local history of Regensburg and Stadtamhof , in which, like in a diary, he made notes about things he had experienced himself or received messages from the years 1422 to 1427.

Works

• Georg Leidinger (ed.): Andreas von Regensburg. All works . Rieger, Munich 1903 ( sources and discussions on Bavarian and German history , new series, volume 1; online ).

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Andreas of Regensburg. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 169.
• Stefan Dicker: Country awareness and current affairs. Studies on the Bavarian chronicle of the 15th century . Böhlau, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20103-6 , pp. 30-81 .
• Claudia Märtl : Andreas of Regensburg. Augustinian canon and historian (approx. 1380 – approx. 1442) . In: Karlheinz Dietz, Gerhard H. Waldherr (Hrsg.): Famous Regensburger . Regensburg 1997, ISBN 3-930480-67-0 , p. 99-103 .
• Claudia Märtl: On the biography of the Bavarian historian Andreas von Regensburg , in: Regensburg and Bavaria in the Middle Ages, (Studies and sources on the history of Regensburg, vol. 4), Regensburg 1987, pp. 33–56.
• Helga Möhring-Müller: Late medieval aristocratic terminology with Hermann Korner, Andreas von Regensburg and his translators, Veit Arnpeck and Sigismund Meisterlin , in: Rolf Sprandel (ed.): Bilingual history writing in late medieval Germany, Wiesbaden 1993, pp. 385-428.
• Helmut Plechl:  Andreas of Regensburg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 283 ( digitized version ).
• Sigmund Ritter von Riezler :  Andreas von Regensburg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 448 f.
• Alois Schmidt: Art. Andreas von Regensburg , in: Große Bayerische Biographische Enzyklopädie, Munich 2005, part 1, p. 48.
• Joachim Schneider: The 'Chronicle of the Princes of Bavaria' by Andreas von Regensburg: Translation as a functional change? , in: Horst Brunner / Norbert Richard Wolf (ed.): Knowledge literature in the Middle Ages and in the early modern times, Wiesbaden 1993, pp. 245–250.
• Joachim Schneider: New Aspects of Mission, Strategy and Success of a Bilingual Dynasty History of the 15th Century. The “Bavarian Chronicle” of Andreas von Regensburg in Latin and German , in: Rolf Sprandel (Hrsg.): Bilingual history writing in late medieval Germany, Wiesbaden 1993, pp. 129–172.

Web links

• Manuscript census
• Andreas von Regensburg in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"