Carsten Schröder

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Carsten Schröder (* 1531/32 in Lunden ; † September 26, 1615 there ) was a German farmer and chronicler.

Live and act

The names of Schröder's parents are unknown. Jürgen Schröder was recorded as one of the first councilors of Lunden. The land register from 1650 lists Carsten Schröder as well as the widow and daughter of Claus Schröder in Lunden. His curriculum vitae is almost only documented in the chronicle he wrote. He himself came from Dithmarschen and wrote explicitly that his brother was born in Lunden that way, which is likely to have been his place of birth.

While similar chroniclers like Johann Russe or Hans Detleff received a higher education, Schröder did not speak the Latin language and wrote his texts in Low German. During the last feud he was on the Dithmarschen side at one of the guns. There is evidence that he lived in Lunden in 1560 and 1588 and owned increasingly more land. In 1566 he was able to purchase a large altarpiece from his income in Lübeck , which he donated to the church in Lunden. In 1572 he held the office of "church builder" (accountant) together with Boie Nanne Denker, who later became governor of Norderdithmarschen. When he died, he was likely to have been the last man from Dithmarschen to take part in the war of 1599.

Schröder was married to a woman named Heine, who died on August 29, 1610. The couple had testified to a daughter who married Philipp Struck.

timeline

From around 1570 Schröder dealt with the history of his homeland. He first wrote corrections to the "Holstein Chronica" that Johann Petersen had written in 1557. He then made copies of Johann Russe's fragmentary document collection and then regularly noted events in his living environment.

Schröder worked like other peasant chroniclers of his time and created documents of comparable scientific value. He reported on chronologically and spatially limited historical sections and worked more reliably than learned chroniclers such as Peter Sax or Anton Heimreich . For the Dithmarschen area, Schröder's notes were the only sources that Neocorus could fall back on in his work. Schröder probably made his work available to Neocorus at the end of the 1590s, but continued to do so until the year he died.

Of particular importance in Schröder's chronicle are the sections that he wrote late and that clearly differ formally from the other entries. It was a brief description of the internal organization of the Free State of Dithmarschen and the historical gender constitution. He probably got the inspiration for this from Neocour and his interest in historical topics.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Schröder, Carsten . in: Schleswig-Holstein biographical lexicon . Volume 5. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1979. ISBN 3-529-02645-X , pages 239-240.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Dieter Lohmeier: Schröder, Carsten . in: Schleswig-Holstein biographical lexicon . Volume 5. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1979. ISBN 3-529-02645-X , page 240.
personal data
SURNAME Schröder, Carsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German farmer and chronicler
DATE OF BIRTH 1531 or 1532
PLACE OF BIRTH Lunden
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1615
Place of death Lunden