Engelbert Wusterwitz
Engelbert Wusterwitz (* around 1385 in the city of Brandenburg ; † December 5, 1433 there ) is an important chronicler of the history of the Brandenburg region at the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries.
Life
Wusterwitz came from a family from the nearby town of Groß Wusterwitz . In the register of the Prague University, where he studied from 1406 to 1407, he is registered as "Engelbert Wusterwitz van Brandenburg". In 1404 he had registered in Erfurt . In 1407 he became a Baccalarius (probably in decretis ) in Prague .
Wusterwitz worked as a clerk and lawyer. He worked as legal advisor for the Lehnin monastery and the new town of Brandenburg and as a syndic for the old town of Magdeburg . 1416/17 he appears as a town clerk (self-designation as Syndicus 1418 and Magister 1418/20) in Magdeburg. There he was involved in writing the continuation of the Magdeburg Schöppenchronik with the reporting period 1411-1421. From 1424/25 he was town clerk in the new town of Brandenburg. In 1427 he is attested as an official of the Bishop of Halberstadt with a master's degree. He donated an altar in the Katharinenkirche in Brandenburg . He was also buried in it.
His German-language records for the period 1391 to 1423, which take sides against the feudal nobility and the burgrave Friedrich VI. as the savior of the march are only available in extracts from chroniclers of the 16th century and were reconstructed in 1973 by Wolfgang Ribbe . AF Riedel had submitted older editions in 1862 (in Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis IV.1), J. Heidemann in 1878 and O. Tschirch in 1912.
literature
- Wolfgang Ribbe : The notes of Engelbert Wusterwitz . (Individual publications by the Historical Commission in Berlin; Volume 12). 1973, ISBN 3-7678-0338-0
- [NN]: Wusterwitz, Engelbert . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 44, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, p. 371.
- Engelbert Wusterwitz . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 9, LexMA-Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-89659-909-7 , Sp. 383 f.
- Author's Lexicon - The German literature of the Middle Ages . 2nd Edition. Volume 10. 1999, Col. 1462-1464
Web links
- Engelbert Wusterwitz in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wusterwitz, Engelbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chronicler of the history of the Brandenburg region |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1385 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brandenburg on the Havel |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 5, 1433 |
| Place of death | Brandenburg on the Havel |