Burchard von Ursberg

Burchard von Ursberg (* before 1177 in Biberach (probably Biberach an der Riss in Württemberg or in Biberach , the district of Roggenburg ); † 1230 or 1231 in Ursberg Monastery ) was a medieval historian .

Live and act

Burchard von Ursberg became a priest in 1202, entered a Premonstratensian monastery in 1205 and became provost of the Ursberg monastery in 1215 , which he presumably remained until his death. In Schussenried he began his world chronicle , for which he took Eckehard von Zwiefalten's chronicle as a model. He also took extensive passages from the chronicle of John of Cremona , a contemporary of Frederick I , of which only these excerpts have survived. From Heinrich VI. then his records are independent. Burchard is oriented towards the Staufer and formulates some criticism of the Pope. His successor Konrad von Lichtenau continued the chronicle until 1229.

Work editions

Burchardus <Urspergensis>: Chronicon Abbatis Urspergensis a Nino ... usque ad Fridericum II. , Augsburg 1515. Online
Georg Heinrich Pertz a . a. (Ed.): Scriptores (in folio) 23: Chronica aevi Suevici. Hanover 1874, pp. 333–390 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
Sources on the history of the Guelphs and the chronicle of Burchard von Ursberg , edited and translated by Matthias Becher with the collaboration of Florian Hartmann and Alheydis Plassmann (Selected sources on the German history of the Middle Ages. Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gedächtnisausgabe 18b), Darmstadt 2007, ISBN 978 -3-534-07564-5 .

literature

Oswald Holder-Egger, Bernhard von Simson (Ed.): The Chronicle of the Provost Burchard von Ursberg . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover, Leipzig 1916 ( digitized ).
Hiram Kümper: Burchard von Ursberg. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 25, Bautz, Nordhausen 2005, ISBN 3-88309-332-7 , Sp. 140-142. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Joachim Leuschner: Burchard von Ursberg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 30 ( digitized version ).
Wilhelm Wattenbach : Burchard von Ursberg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 566 f.
Wolfgang Wulz: The late Staufer historian Burchard von Ursberg. Personality and historical-political view of the world. (Writings on Southwest German Regional Studies, Vol. 18), Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-87532-077-8 .

Individual evidence

↑ In the Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon ( Memento of June 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) it says: “The exact date of B's death remains controversial: The assumption of the older research, which relates to a directory of the 16th century, January 1226 regarded Bs as the date of death. On the other hand, there is nothing to suggest that the passages of the Ursberg Chronicle following this year, which does not end until the summer of 1230, stem from later interpolation. Rather, the chronicler seems to have lived with great certainty in the winter of 1226, which means that January is ruled out as the date of death without this (Gronau 1890, 86). "

Web links

Literature by and about Burchard von Ursberg in the catalog of the German National Library

Burchardus Urspergensis in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"

personal data
SURNAME	Burchard von Ursberg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Burchardus Urspergensis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	medieval historian
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1177
PLACE OF BIRTH	uncertain: Biberach an der Riss
DATE OF DEATH	1230 or 1231
Place of death	Ursberg Monastery

[1] In the Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon ( Memento of June 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) it says: “The exact date of B's death remains controversial: The assumption of the older research, which relates to a directory of the 16th century, January 1226 regarded Bs as the date of death. On the other hand, there is nothing to suggest that the passages of the Ursberg Chronicle following this year, which does not end until the summer of 1230, stem from later interpolation. Rather, the chronicler seems to have lived with great certainty in the winter of 1226, which means that January is ruled out as the date of death without this (Gronau 1890, 86). "