The chronicles of the German cities
The Chronicles of German Cities were an important publishing company on the history of the German late Middle Ages in the 19th century. Like the General German Biography, it was supported by the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In October 1858 at the preparatory meeting for the founding of the Historical Commission, it was decided to include the series suggested by Georg Heinrich Pertz in the work program.
The historian Karl Hegel was the founder and first director .
The first volume, dedicated to Nuremberg , was published by S. Hirzel Verlag in Leipzig in 1862 (like most of the later volumes). The last volume 37 ( Bremen ) appeared as a straggler in 1968, but the series was essentially completed before the First World War .
In 1902 Ferdinand Frensdorff wrote in the obituary for Hegel about the series:
“The 27 volumes that it counts so far are distributed fairly evenly over the landscapes of Germany. From the Hanseatic League area, Cologne, Dortmund, Soest, Duisburg, Neuss, Magdeburg, Braunschweig and Lübeck are represented. The richest material was provided by Nuremberg and Augsburg, each of which used five volumes. Cologne demanded three, Mainz two, as many Braunschweig and the not yet finished Lübeck. "
Numerous volumes have been digitized as part of Google Book Search , but can only be used with a US proxy (list at Wikisource , see below).
According to information on the website of the Historical Commission, a full-text offer of the chronicles is planned.
List of volumes (incomplete)
- Braunschweig. in 3 volumes (= the chronicles of the cities of Lower Saxony), Hirzel, Leipzig 1868–1928 (digital copies of the library of the Technical University of Braunschweig: volume 1 , volume 2 , volume 3 )
- Nuremberg. in 5 volumes (= The Chronicles of the Franconian Cities), Hirzel, Leipzig 1862–1874 (digital copies of the Bavarian State Library: Volume 1 , Volume 2 , Volume 3 , Volume 4 , Volume 5 )
literature
- Marion Kreis: The "town hedge" in Bavaria - Karl Hegel as a professor in Erlangen (1856–1901). In: Karl Hegel: historical-scientific significance and scientific-historical location (= series of publications by the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Vol. 84), Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen and Bristol, Conn. 2012, p. 159f, ISBN 978-3-525-36077-4 , table of contents (eBook ISBN 978-3-647-36077-5 )
- Dominique Adrian: Les "Chronicles of German Cities", une entreprise éditoriale à l'époque de la construction nationale allemande. In: La naissance de la médiévistique. Edited by Isabelle Guyot-Bachy and Jean-Marie Moeglin. Droz, Geneva 2015, pp. 225–242.
