Fritsche Closener

Fritsche Closener or Klosener (* around 1315 in Strasbourg ; † between 1390 and 1396 there) was a chronicler and lexicographer .

Life

Fritsche Closener probably came from a Strasbourg patrician family . Only the names of his parents, Greda and Sifrid, who were citizens of Strasbourg, can be documented. In autumn 1349 and spring 1350 Fritsche was mentioned as chaplain of the Marien Altar in the Strasbourg cathedral . On July 14, 1350, this benefice went to another priest. Instead, Closener will have received a benefice in the newly built Katharinenkapelle in Münster. From 1358 he can be proven as the first beneficiary at the main altar of this chapel. Since 1366 he is referred to as the owner of a benefice at the choir of the cathedral. He died on October 26th between 1390 and 1396.

Works

Chronicle, edited in Karl Hegel : The Chronicles of the Upper Rhine Cities. Strasbourg. First volume. Leipzig 1870 (Reprint Göttingen 1961) ( The Chronicles of the German Cities Volume 8), pp. 1–151 (second count).
The vocabularies of Fritsche Closener and Jakob Twinger von Königshofen . Traditional edition. 3 volumes, edited by Klaus Kirchert together with Dorothea Klein. Tübingen 1995 (Texts and Text History Volume 40–42), ISBN 3-484-36040-2 .
Directorium chori , a collection of customs and ceremonies at Strasbourg Cathedral, received as an autograph from Closener's (Cod. 585 of the Melk Abbey Library ) and in a copy (Cod. 81 of the Humanist Library in Schlettstadt ).

literature

Veronika Feller-Vest: Closener, Fritsche. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . Article version dated February 11, 2005
Harry Gerber: Closener, Fritsche (Friedrich). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 294 f. ( Digitized version ).
Karl Hegel : Closener: Fritsche (Friedrich) . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 341.
Franz Hofinger: Studies on the German chronicles of Fritsche Closener from Strasbourg and Jakob Twinger from Koenigshofen. Munich, Univ., Diss. 1974.
Klaus Kirchert: Urban historiography and school literature. Reception history studies on the work of Fritsche Closener and Jakob Twinger von Königshofen. Wiesbaden 1993 (Knowledge literature in the Middle Ages Volume 12), ISBN 3-88226-556-6 .
Aloys Schulte: Closener and Königshofen. Contributions to the history of their lives and the making of their chronicles. In: Straßburger Studien 1 (1883), pp. 277-299.

Web links

Fritsche Closener in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"

Digital copy of the chronicle manuscript

Remarks

^ Document book of the City of Strasbourg. 7th vol. Private law documents and council lists from 1332 to 1400, edited by Hans Witte. Strasbourg 1900, p. 805, no. 2763, document dated June 5, 1396, in which heirs of the late Fritsche Closener are mentioned. Kirchert 1993, p. 3 pointed out that Closener was still alive in 1390, according to the aforementioned document book no.2481.
^ Document book of the City of Strasbourg. 7th vol. Private law documents and council lists from 1332 to 1400, edited by Hans Witte. Strasbourg 1900, pp. 358f., No. 1219, his maternal aunt was called Katherina called Sporerin.
^ Document book of the City of Strasbourg. 5th vol. Political documents from 1332 to 1380, edited by Hans Witte and Georg Wolfram. Strasbourg 1896, p. 208, no. 219 and document book of the city of Strasbourg. 7th vol. Private law documents and council lists from 1332 to 1400, edited by Hans Witte. Strasbourg 1900, p. 173, note 1 cappellanus .
^ Document book of the City of Strasbourg. 5th vol. Political documents from 1332 to 1380, edited by Hans Witte and Georg Wolfram. Strasbourg 1896, p. 224, no.233.
^ Aloys Schulte: Closener and Königshofen. Contributions to the history of their lives and the making of their chronicles. In: Straßburger Studien 1 (1883), pp. 277–299, here p. 280.
^ Document book of the City of Strasbourg. 7th vol. Private law documents and council lists from 1332 to 1400, edited by Hans Witte. Strasbourg 1900, p. 358f., No. 1219, No. 1347, p. 440, No. 1513, in 1371 he is more precisely referred to as the summissarius , ibid. P. 415, No. 1429.
↑ Cf. Aloys Schulte: Closener and Königshofen. Contributions to the history of their lives and the making of their chronicles. In: Straßburger Studien 1 (1883), pp. 277–299, here p. 277 on the current date.
^ Klaus Kirchert: Urban historiography and school literature. Wiesbaden 1993, p. 10, note 34.

personal data
SURNAME	Closener, Fritsche
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Closener, Friedrich; Klosener, Fritsche
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chronicler
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1315
PLACE OF BIRTH	Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH	before 1396
Place of death	Strasbourg

[1] Document book of the City of Strasbourg. 7th vol. Private law documents and council lists from 1332 to 1400, edited by Hans Witte. Strasbourg 1900, p. 805, no. 2763, document dated June 5, 1396, in which heirs of the late Fritsche Closener are mentioned. Kirchert 1993, p. 3 pointed out that Closener was still alive in 1390, according to the aforementioned document book no.2481.

[2] Document book of the City of Strasbourg. 7th vol. Private law documents and council lists from 1332 to 1400, edited by Hans Witte. Strasbourg 1900, pp. 358f., No. 1219, his maternal aunt was called Katherina called Sporerin.

[3] Document book of the City of Strasbourg. 5th vol. Political documents from 1332 to 1380, edited by Hans Witte and Georg Wolfram. Strasbourg 1896, p. 208, no. 219 and document book of the city of Strasbourg. 7th vol. Private law documents and council lists from 1332 to 1400, edited by Hans Witte. Strasbourg 1900, p. 173, note 1 cappellanus .

[4] Document book of the City of Strasbourg. 5th vol. Political documents from 1332 to 1380, edited by Hans Witte and Georg Wolfram. Strasbourg 1896, p. 224, no.233.

[5] Aloys Schulte: Closener and Königshofen. Contributions to the history of their lives and the making of their chronicles. In: Straßburger Studien 1 (1883), pp. 277–299, here p. 280.

[6] Document book of the City of Strasbourg. 7th vol. Private law documents and council lists from 1332 to 1400, edited by Hans Witte. Strasbourg 1900, p. 358f., No. 1219, No. 1347, p. 440, No. 1513, in 1371 he is more precisely referred to as the summissarius , ibid. P. 415, No. 1429.

[7] Cf. Aloys Schulte: Closener and Königshofen. Contributions to the history of their lives and the making of their chronicles. In: Straßburger Studien 1 (1883), pp. 277–299, here p. 277 on the current date.

[8] Klaus Kirchert: Urban historiography and school literature. Wiesbaden 1993, p. 10, note 34.