Bernhard Hertzog

Bernhard Hertzog (born January 26, 1537 in Weißenburg ; † 1596/1597 in Wörth an der Sauer ) was a German lawyer and historian.

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The son of councilor Hans Hertzog attended school in Durlach and Strasbourg grammar school , studied in Heidelberg , where he was enrolled in 1550 and again in 1557. In 1561 he got a job in Zweibrücken as a Palatine clerk. After the death of Palatine Wolfgang von Pfalz-Zweibrücken , he entered the service of Count Philip IV of Hanau-Lichtenberg in 1570 . He became secretary and later bailiff in Wörth, where he remained until his death.

The eldest daughter from her marriage to Elisabeth Breitenacker from Weißenburg on November 4, 1560 married the Strasbourg writer Johann Fischart .

Bernhart Hertzog gained importance through his historical-genealogical Chronicon Alsatiae or Edelsasser Chronick , which appeared in Strasbourg in 1592 by Bernhard Jobin , Fischart's publisher. It was widely used and remains indispensable for the history of Lower Alsace , as Hertzog was able to fall back on sources that are now lost. The Strasbourg chronicle, completed by his contemporary Daniel Speckle in 1587, was designed as a counterpart to Hertzog's chronicle based on a letter from Speckle .

In addition to handwritten collections, especially on the history of the nobility, he wrote a collection of Schiltwache swans (Magdeburg edition around 1580: VD 16 H 2660, copy in Wolfenbüttel).

Works

• Chronicon Alsatiae, Edelsasser Chronick. Bernhart Jobin, Strasbourg 1592, urn : nbn: de: 0128-1-25783 .
• References to handwritten documents: Archivalia from September 19, 2012 online .

literature

• Georg Christian Crollius : Memorabilia de Bernhardo Herzog. without location 1768 ( dilibri ).
• Eugen Müntz: Le chroniqueur Bernard Hertzog et son gendre le poète Jean Fischart. In: Revue d'Alsace. NF. 2, 1873, pp. 360-380 ( Internet Archive ).
• Franz Xaver von Wegele :  Hertzog, Bernhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 251.
• Hermann Hahn: The handwritten estate of Bernhard Hertzog in the Frankfurt City Library. In: Quarterly magazine for coat of arms, seal and family studies. 24, 1896, pp. 1-18 ( Internet Archive ).
• Édouard Sitzmann: Dictionnaire de biographie des hommes célèbres de l'Alsace 1 (1909), p. 763f. Gallica .
• Joseph Fuchs :  Hertzog, Bernhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 719 ( digitized version ).
• Jean Rott: Bernhart Hertzog, (1537–1596 / 97). Chronicler and bailiff in Wörth. In: Jean Rott: Investigationes Historicae. Volume 2. Strasbourg 1986, pp. 327-338 (first in: L'Outre Forêt. 26, 1979, pp. 37-49).
• François Joseph Fuchs: Hertzog Bernhart. In: Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne. 16, 1990, p. 1562.
• Norbert Warken: Medieval historiography in Strasbourg. Studies of their function and reception up to the early modern period . Dissertation Saarbrücken 1995, pp. 557-565.