Heinrich Hug (chronicler)
Heinrich Hug (* around 1465/70 in Villingen ; † after 1533 there) was a council member and chronicler .
Life
Heinrich Hug came from the Hug bourgeois family in Villingen, he was a member of the builders' guild and the Herrenstube, which actually only belonged to patricians .
For about 20 years he was a member of the council of the city of Villingen, which also exercised the high level of jurisdiction . In his chronicle he mentions his own pilgrimage to Rome in 1500.
The historian Christian Roder assumed that he began to keep records upon his return. The Hugsche Chronik contains, among other things, important events relating to the peasant war in southern Germany.
Individual evidence
- ^ Christian Roder, Heinrich Hugs Villinger Chronik from 1495 to 1533 , p. 225, 1883.
literature
- Franz Joseph Mone , Villinger Chronik in: Sources Collection Volume 2
- Christian Roder, Heinrich Hugs Villinger Chronicle from 1495 to 1533 , 1883
Web links
Wikisource: Heinrich Hug - Sources and full texts
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hug, Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Haug, Hainrich (falsified) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Councilor and chronicler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1465 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Villingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1533 |
| Place of death | Villingen |