Hermann Helewegh
Hermann Helewegh , also Hermann Westfal (* before 1444 , † after 1489 in Riga ) was council clerk in Riga and chronicler of the city.
Life
Hermann Helewegh first studied at the University of Rostock from 1444 . He was a council clerk for the Hanseatic city of Riga. On the official order of the city council, he wrote the first city chronicle as a chronicler under the traditional title Das Rote Buch inter Archiepiscopalia in Low German. It was translated into High German and supplemented by the city archivist Johann Witte in the middle of the 17th century; this manuscript has been handed down. He later became councilor in Riga and is said to have died around 1500.
Fonts
- Complete and interpolated copy of the chronicle by Johann Witte in the Riga State Archives
literature
- Johann Friedrich von Recke , Karl Eduard von Napiersky : General writers and scholars encyclopedia of the provinces of Livonia, Esthland and Courland . tape 2 : G-K . Johann Friedrich Steffenhagen and son, Mitau 1829, p. 226 ( Digitale-sammlungen.de ).
- Melchior Fuchs : The red book inter Archiepiscopalia containing the Acta between the archbishops, master masters and the city of Riga in Livonia de anno 1158–1489. In: Scriptores rerum Livonicarum. Volume 2, Eduard Frantzen's Verlags-Comptoir, Riga and Leipzig 1848, pp. 732–804.
Individual evidence
- ↑ entry as Hermannum Westual 1444 in Rostock Matrikelportal
- ↑ According to the manuscript census, signature: Fund 4038 directory 2 No. 100
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Helewegh, Hermann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Westfal, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Baltic writer, council writer and chronicler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1444 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1489 |
| Place of death | Riga |