Christian Kuchimeister
Christian Kuchimeister or, as he called himself, Christân der Kuchimaister (* around 1260 in St. Gallen ; † after 1335 there ) was a Swiss chronicler .
Life
Little is known about the life of the St. Gallen citizen in the vicinity of the St. Gallen Monastery . The family name Kuchimeister appears for the first time in 1222. Members of the family are named as witnesses in documents, others held the office of Ammann . Allegedly it goes back to the tribe of the Reichsküchemeister von Rothenburg .
timeline
Kuchimeister's chronicle follows the tradition of the monk Ratpert , who was the first to record the history of the monastery. As a source, Kuchimeister initially used his predecessor, the monastery chronicler Konrad von Fabaria , and he was able to write down the other reports from his own experience. He began his records in German on June 7, 1335. They describe the period from 1228 to 1329 and are considered historically reliable.
Swiss chronicle writers like Ulrich Rösch used his chronicle, later it was also evaluated by Joachim Vadian and others. It was first printed by Johann Jacob Breitinger in the Helvetische Bibliothek, edited with his friend Johann Jakob Bodmer , consisting of historical, political and critical contributions to the stories of the Swiss country, Fifth Piece , Zurich 1736.
The chronicle has come down to us in three manuscripts, the oldest being the most important. It was owned by Hans Conrad Heidegger , who then donated it to the Zurich City Library . It is known as the Z handwriting . The manuscript V dates from around 1450 and remained in the Vadiana . It was edited by Jacob Hardegger at the request of Joseph Eutych Kopp . A more recent copy, manuscript Z.-A. , came as war booty in 1712 from the St. Gallen monastery archive to the Zurich State Archives .
Editions and Literature
- Christian Kuchimeister: Nüwe Casus Monasterii Sancti Galli. Edited by Gerold Meyer von Knonau . Huber, St. Gallen 1881.
- Cristân the Kuchimaister: Nüwe Casus Monasterii Sancti Galli. Edition and linguistic classification by Eugen Nyffenegger . De Gruyter, Berlin 1974.
- Author Lexicon. The German literature of the Middle Ages . 2nd Edition. Volume 5, de Gruyter, Berlin 1985, pp. 400-406.
- Johann Friedrich Böhmer (among others): Repertory fontium historiae medii aevi. Volume 6, Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, Rome 1991, p. 656 ff.
Web links
- Ernst Tremp : Kuchimeister, Christian. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Kuchimaister, Christian in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
- Zurich, Central Library, Ms. A 152: Christian Kuchimeister: Nüwe Casus monasterii s. Galli (1226-1329) [1] .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dr. Friedrich Küchenmeister: The chefs of the Meißnerland, at the court of the Wettins and at that of the Meißner bishops in the 13th to the beginning of the 15th century. In Neues Lausitzisches Magazin, Volume 52, Görlitz 1876, p. 221
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kuchimeister, Christian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Christân the Kuchimaister |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss chronicler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1260 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Gallen |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1335 |
| Place of death | St. Gallen |