Cosmus from Simmer

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Cosmus Simmer, from 1611 Simmer von Simmerncamp (born March 19, 1581 in Kolberg ; † November 16, 1650 ibid) was a German historian.

Cosmus Simmer was a son of the Kolberger councilor and salt relative Jochim Simmer and Judith Braunschweig. In 1596 he was sent to Poland to study languages ​​for four years . He then traveled for several years for his father's business and came to Breslau in 1604 . From there he traveled for a further 16 years through all of northern Germany, Prussia, Poland, Bohemia, the Netherlands, Sweden, England and France.

On October 10, 1611, he was ennobled in Breslau with the addition of the predicate "von Simmerncamp", chosen after a small property near Kolberg. He was given the coat of arms of the extinct noble family von Dargatz , to which his grandmother had belonged.

In 1605 he began to write a "historical, genealogical cosmographia", which was completed around 1632, but was expanded again and again until 1646, so that it finally comprised 14 tomes. It was divided into 12 sections with a total of about 7,000 pages. After Simmer's death, the manuscript is said to have come into the possession of Günter Heyler .

At the end of the 19th century, only the 490 sheets of the original that dealt with Brandenburg , Pomerania and Mecklenburg were known.

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SURNAME Simmer, Cosmus of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1581
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolberg
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1650
Place of death Kolberg