Hans Stokar

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Portrait of Hans Stokar in the Gothic room in the Museum zu Allerheiligen , (painter unknown)

Hans Stokar also Stockar or Stokkar (born September 1, 1490 in Barzheim ; † July 1, 1556 in Schaffhausen ) was a merchant, bailiff, chronicler and pilgrim .

Life

His grandfather had already acquired Schaffhausen citizenship in 1443 . He came from the Schaffhausen patrician family Stokar . The later chronicler was traditionally with the merchants. At the age of 22, Stokar took part in the piano parade, in which his brother Alexander Stokar also took part as captain. In 1513 he fought at Novara and before Dijon , in 1515 at Marignano . The great campaigns were followed by pilgrimages, to Santiago de Compostela in 1517 and to Jerusalem in 1519 , where he was knighted by the Holy Sepulcher . In 1526 he married the daughter of the mayor Hans Peyer, Elisabeth. In 1520 he was elected to the city court. In 1523 his guild elected him to the Grand Council. In 1524 he became a calculator and bag master, after 1530 imperial bailiff of the city of Schaffhausen.

Hans Stokar had participated in five campaigns against the French and could not understand that the Confederates were allied with the French king who had caused them so great damage at Milan. The defeat at Pavia (1525) showed Stokar rightly: what princes and lords are and who is masters, if god will not . After mentioning a few prominent fallen soldiers, he stated: What came out was sick and naked. Who doesn’t mind and dread! god put it down and keep us . In a statement of accounts for the year 1523, Stokar resolved never to go to war again unless it was about the fatherland.

Hans Stokar experienced the development of the Reformation and becomes an eyewitness to the revolutionary scenes that are characteristic of the inner development in the city of Schaffhausen. In 1523 he speaks of his first encounter with church reform, which he strongly criticized. As a merchant - horse, salt, wine and fabric dealer - he was on the move on trade routes. In 1529 he abruptly breaks off his reports. The original manuscript was lost.

His older son Heinrich Stokar converted to the "new faith". The younger son, Hans Jakob Stokar, stayed with the "old faith" and moved to Solothurn, where his mother followed after Hans Stokar's death. His daughter was married to the theologian Johann Wilhelm Stucki .

literature

  • Hans Stockar; Ulrich Harder; Johann Heinrich Maurer-Constant: Hans Stockars Jerusalemfahrt 1519 and chronicle 1520-1529 , Schaffhausen 1839
  • Johann Jakob Rüeger , Chronik , Vol. 2, (pp. 967–973), Schaffhausen 1892
  • Karl Schib , Hans Stockar's Journey to Jerusalem and Chronicle, 1520-1529, Basel 1949; (with portrait of Stockar, description of the manuscript, glossary and name index).
  • Karl Schib: Hans Stockar . In: Schaffhauser Contributions to History. Biographies Volume IV . 58th year 1981, pp. 341–343 ( PDF )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Schib: Hans Stockar . In: Schaffhauser Contributions to History. Biographies Volume IV . 58th year 1981, pp. 341–343 ( PDF )
personal data
SURNAME Stokar, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stockar, Hans; Stokkar, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Schaffhausen patrician, chronicler and pilgrim
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1490
PLACE OF BIRTH Barzheim
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1556
Place of death Schaffhausen