Diebold Schilling the Elder
Diebold Schilling the Elder (* around 1445, † around 1486 ) was a historian and author of the Bern Chronicle in the tradition of the Swiss illustrated chronicle .
He was the second son of Niklaus Schilling from Solothurn and the uncle of the chronicler Diebold Schilling the Younger . He was trained in the Diebold Laubers workshop and at the Lucerne law firm. In 1460 he joined the office of the city of Bern, became a citizen of the city and in 1468 a member of the Grand Council . In 1485 he resigned from his office as court clerk, apparently for health reasons. Since the 1460s he has dealt with depictions of Bernese and Swiss history. He took part in the Burgundian Wars .
Three works by Diebold Schilling have been preserved: the Great Burgundy Chronicle or the “Zürcher Schilling”, the three-volume Official Bern Chronicle , which covers the period from 1152 to 1480, and Schilling's last work is the Spiezer Chronik , a commission for the Bernese Alt-Schultheissen Rudolf von Erlach, which is considered the artistic culmination of Schilling's work.
literature
- Georg von Wyß: Schilling, Diebold . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, pp. 715-717.
- Norbert H. Ott: Schilling, Diebold. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 770 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Carl Gerhard Baumann: About the origin of the oldest Swiss illustrated chronicles (1468–1485) (= writings from the Bern Citizens' Library ). Bern 1971
Web links
- Literature by and about Diebold Schilling the Elder in the catalog of the German National Library
- Schilliyng, Diebold in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schilling, Diebold the Elder |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Historian and author of the Bern Chronicle |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1445 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1485 |