Heinrich of Munich
Henry of Munich was the author of a series of Chronicle - Compilations of the 14th century.
Little is known about the life of Heinrich von Munich. He only wrote some of the poems himself, otherwise he brought together what already existed. Even before Heinrich von Munich there were attempts to merge the existing world chronicles into a complete work. The first attempt is the so-called extended Christherre Chronicle .
Swell:
- Old ee
- Petrus Comestor
- Saxon World Chronicle
- Gesta Romanorum
- Rudolf of Ems
- Jans the Enicle
- Bible
- the pantheon of the historian Gottfried von Viterbo
- so-called cruciform legend and legend about the three holy kings
- Konrad von Würzburg : novel about the Trojan War
- Ulrich von Etzenbach : Alexander novel
With these sources he reached almost to the birth of Christ. Then he used:
- Imperial Chronicle
- Wolframs von Eschenbach Parzival
- Sources about the life of Jesus and Mary (mostly stories and apocrypha )
- very detailed description of the life of Charlemagne
Using this compilation procedure, Heinrich came up with his report around the year 1250.
Only the first version is by Heinrich himself. The original manuscript is hardly available in full in any of the subsequent manuscripts. The following manuscripts are nevertheless referred to as Heinrich von München World Chronicles . The authors were very sensitive to their work. They mixed very well, sometimes only individual sentences from the works are brought together. That is why one cannot speak of just "bits and pieces", something completely new and unique was created.
literature
- Studies on the “Weltchronik” of Heinrich von Munich , 3 volumes, (Wissensliteratur im Mittelalter, Vol. 29; 30.1; 30.2; 31.1; 31.2), Wiesbaden 1998.
- Klaus Grubmüller: Heinrich of Munich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 418 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Claudia Brinker-von der Heyde (Ed.): The Arolser Weltchronik. A monumental historical work of the Middle Ages , Darmstadt 2014, ISBN 978-3-534-25206-0 (contains Heinrichs von München's world chronicle ).
- Frank Shaw (Ed.): Die Weltchronik Heinrichs von München, Neue EE , (German texts of the Middle Ages, Vol. 88), Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-05-004460-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinrich von Munich in the catalog of the German National Library
- Heinrich von München in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
- Heinrich von München: Weltchronik Ms. germ. Fol. 1416th Berlin State Library , accessed on July 10, 2014 .
- Heinrich von München: Gereimte Weltchronik (BSB Cgm 7377) - high-resolution digitized version in the culture portal bavarikon
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SURNAME | Heinrich of Munich |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | medieval writer of world chronicle compilations |
DATE OF BIRTH | 14th Century |
DATE OF DEATH | 14th Century |