Dietrich vam Lohe

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Dietrich vam Lohe , also Dietrich vom Lohe (before 1529 - around 1583) was a German bookbinder and chronicler of the 16th century in Rostock . He is considered the anonymous author of the Rostock Chronicle from 1529 to 1583. Very little is known about vam Lohe himself, personal events hardly played a role in the chronicle and, moreover, they are only very rarely recognizable as such. One can assume that vam Lohe died around the year the chronicle ends.

The Rostock Chronicle from 1529 to 1583

Rostock Chronicle 1529–1583
Basic data
Type: Handwriting
Author: Dietrich vam Lohe
Language: Low German
Time: 1529-1583
To the handwriting
Designation: Bouchholtz's handwriting
Place: unknown

The important Rostock chronicler researcher and city archivist Ernst Dragendorff did not find out about the author of this chronicle until the beginning of the 20th century , when he compared the existing manuscripts on the basis of earlier research. The problem was to find a handwriting that could be considered as authentic as possible, because handwriting was copied and thus consciously and unconsciously changed.

The Bouchholtz handwriting, named after Ernst Friedrich Bouchholtz , who owned it in the 18th century, can be regarded as reliable . It consists of ten historical-chronological texts by three anonymous authors. The seventh of them is the Rostock Chronicle, written in Low German . It is particularly interesting that in the margin of this manuscript there are comments by another scribe. Dragendorff found an anonymous high German chronicle by the same writer, which follows directly from the vam Lohesche. It also contains high German adaptations of the vam Lohesche text. In this, the author mentions that his wife Margaretha Schmiedes fell ill at a wedding and died a little later. Dragendorff found in the town book that she was married to a Vicke Schorler . So now Dragendorff knew who the author of the marginal notes was and who had written the chronicle from 1584 to 1625.

In 1931 Dragendorff provided the first complete transcription of the Rostock Chronicle of Dietrich vam Lohe in the articles on the history of the city of Rostock .

literature

  • Ernst Dragendorff: The Chronicle of Dietrich vam Lohe 1529–1583. In: Contributions to the history of the city of Rostock. Published by the Rostock Antiquities Association. Volume 17. Rostock 1931.
  • Ingrid Ehlers (Ed.): Vicke Schorler - Rostocker Chronik 1584–1625. Rostock: Verlag Schmidt-Römhild 2000. In: Publications of the Historical Commission for Mecklenburg. Series C, Volume 3, ISBN 3795037344

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ "[477]: Anno 1624, November 11th, was on Martini Day, my sister daughter Annen Lemeyer's wedding was with her breutgamb Hans Pentsin. At which wedding my dear Hausfraw Margaretha Schmiedes got sick, which sickness got so out of hand with her that on November 13th, from Sunday evening to Sunday in the night between 12 and 1 o'clock, this world was blessed and death was premature. " (From the transcription of Schorler's chronicle in Ingrid Ehlers (Hrsg.): Vicke Schorler - Rostocker Chronik 1584–1625.)
personal data
SURNAME Lohe, Dietrich vam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lohe, Dietrich vom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookbinder and chronicler
DATE OF BIRTH before 1529
DATE OF DEATH around 1583