Christoph Lehmann (writer)
Christoph Lehmann (* 1568 in Finsterwalde ; † January 20, 1638 in Heilbronn ) was a German writer and town clerk in Speyer .
Life
His Speyer Chronicle of 1612, for which he was still able to fall back on the entire inventory of files from the imperial city of Speyer, is an important testimony not only to the history of the city of Speyer , but also to the history of the German city and the everyday history of the Middle Ages in general. It is often quoted as Lehmann's Chronicle . It ends with the death of Emperor Friedrich III. in 1493.
As a compiler he created the Florilegium politicum in 1630 . Politischer Blumengarten, Darinn unreadable political sentences, doctrines, rules and proverbs [...] collected in locos communes .
Work editions
- Chronica of the Freyen Reichs instead of Speyr: Darinn acted by dreyerley fornemblich / First from the origin / Uffnemen / Liberation / nature of the regiment / Freyities / privileges / rights / justice / memorable things and stories / also different wars and sieges of the instead of Speyr: to the other / From the beginning and direction of the German Empire / the same government by the King and Kayser / and what it had in common with the same / and especially with the mercy of Frey and the imperial places / ... Third / from the beginning and description of the bishops to Speyr / and the Speyrian Bisthumbs . First edition. Rosen, Frankfurt am Main 1612. ( digitized dilibri Rhineland-Palatinate ), 2nd edition, Rosen 1662 ( digitized dilibri Rhineland-Palatinate ), 3rd edition, Oehrling 1698 ( digitized ULB Düsseldorf ), 4th edition, Oehrling 1711 ( digitalisat dilibri Rhineland-Palatinate )
literature
- Georg Rau: Christophorus Lehmann and his Chronica of the free imperial city Speier , Speyer 1859. Full text in the Google book search
- Jakob Franck : Lehmann, Christoph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, pp. 132-138.
- Klaus Graf : Lehmann, Christoph . In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales . Concise dictionary for historical and comparative narrative research Vol. 8 Lief. 3/4, Berlin-New York 1996, Sp. 881–883
Web links
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lehmann, Christoph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer, town clerk in Speyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1568 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Finsterwalde |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 20, 1638 |
| Place of death | Heilbronn |