Clemens Sender

Clemens Sender (born November 23, 1475 in Lauingen , † February 26, 1537 in Augsburg ) was an Augsburg historian and Benedictine .

Sender entered the monastery of Sankt Ulrich and Afra Augsburg in 1496 . A year later he was made profession there and was ordained priest in 1501 . In 1527 he was attested as prior . He wrote a twelve-volume Latin world chronicle, which he called "Chronographia" (1523–1534). Shortly before his death, he also wrote an Augsburg city chronicle in German , which dealt with the city's beginnings up to 1536. It is shaped from the Catholic point of view and describes the Reformation as a pernicious evil. Sender was the last historian of the monastery for a long time.

literature

• Adolf Layer : Outstanding personalities and genders. In: District and city of Dillingen then and now. Edited by the District Office Dillingen an der Donau, Dillingen an der Donau 1967, p. 87.
• Wilhelm Vogt:  Sender, Clemens . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, p. 6 f.
• Wilhelm Vogt: Des Clemens Sender Chronicon Augustanum - a Wolfenbüttler manuscript. In: Journal of the Historical Association for Swabia and Neuburg, Volume 6 (1879), pp. 83-88
• Wilhelm Vogt: The Augsburg Chronicle of Clemens Sender. In: Journal of the Historical Association for Swabia and Neuburg, Volume 21 (1894), pp. 149–164 ( online ).