Heinrich of Munich

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The world chronicle of Heinrich of Munich in the manuscript Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Ms. germ. Fol. 1416, fol. 280r (around 1400)

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:

With these sources he reached almost to the birth of Christ. Then he used:

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 .

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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