Gregor Mangolt

Gregor Mangolt (born March 12, 1498 in Tübingen ; † 1577 or 1578, according to other information, 1584, in Zurich ) was a German chronicler , a priest, bookseller and publisher who had converted to Protestantism.

Life

Mangolt came from a patrician family and was the son of the lawyer and Zurich town clerk Wolfgang Mangolt. In 1513 he went to the Premonstratensian monastery in Weißenau . From 1515 to 1520 he studied at the University of Freiburg with a master's degree . In 1522 he was ordained a priest.

Mangolt became a supporter of the Zurich reformer Ulrich Zwingli and converted to Protestantism in 1522 . From 1524 he lived in Konstanz and married Regula Hug in the same year. From 1526 he ran a bookstore with Reformation writings and worked as a publisher. Constance was re-Catholicized in 1548 and Mangolt was expelled from the city in October of that year. He settled in Zurich, where he also lived as a bookseller and bookkeeper , worked as a proofreader for Christoph Froschauer and was in contact with the chronicler Johannes Stumpf .

While in exile in Zurich in the mid-1550s, he wrote several versions of a chronicle of the city of Konstanz with a complete edition from 1556/1556. In it he dealt with the history of the city, the diocese of Constance , including the murder of the Constance bishop Johann Windlock , and the Council of Constance . He also compiled texts of sacred songs in manuscripts, for example by Ambrosius Blarer . The Konstanzerlied, one of two songs by Jakob Ruf, has been handed down in a Mangolt manuscript . He wrote a book about the fish of Lake Constance , which Conrad Gessner published in 1557 without Mangolt's consent.

In 1576 Mangolt married Elisabeth Ott for the second time. He died in late 1577 or early 1578; other sources give 1584 as the year of death.

Works

• Veronika Feller-Vest: Mangolt, Gregor. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Chronicle of the city of Constance
• Fish book. On the nature and properties of fish. Christoph Froschauer , Zurich 1557 (further editions: 1576, 1578, 1598 and more often) (This includes as the second part: A “Fish Booklet” first published by Jakob Köbel in 1493 ).

literature

• Andreas Bihrer : The murder of the Bishop of Constance Johann Windlock (1351-1356) in the perception of contemporaries and posterity. In: Episcopal murder in the Middle Ages. Murder of bishops, ed. by Natalie M. Fryde and Dirk Reitz (publications of the Max Planck Institute for History, Vol. 191), Göttingen 2003, pp. 335–392, here: pp. 365–367.
• Heinrich Grimm: The bookkeepers of the German cultural area and their branches 1490 to 1550. In: Archive for the history of the book industry. Volume 7, 1966, Col. 1346 and 1350.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gregor Mangolt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Gregor Mangolt: Fish book. On the nature and properties of fish. (Digitized version)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Markus Jenny: A second song manuscript by Gregor Mangolt with a hitherto unknown song by Leo Jud. In: Zwingliania.ch
2. ↑ Hildegard Elisabeth Keller (ed.): With the work of his hands. Life and work of the Zurich city surgeon and theater maker Jakob Ruf (1505–1558). (PDF file; 142 kB) p. 179.
3. ↑ The fish book by Gregor Mangolt.
4. ↑ digitized version
5. ^ Heinrich Grimm: New contributions to the "fish literature" of the XV. to XVII. Century and through their printer and bookkeeper. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade - Frankfurt edition. No. 89, November 5, 1968 (= Archive for the History of Books. Volume 62), pp. 2871–2887, here: 2876.