Hermann Korner

Hermann Korner (* ~ 1365 in Lübeck ; † 1438 ibid) was a mercenary leader, historian and reading master. As a Lübeck chronicler, he wrote the “ Chronica novella ”.

biography

Korner was first documented in his hometown in 1386 as a mercenary leader. Shortly before the end of the 14th century he became a monk with the Dominicans and in 1417 a reading master in the castle monastery . At an advanced age, he took up studies at the University of Erfurt from 1431 to 1435 and received his doctorate at the theological faculty.

From 1416 he wrote his “ Chronica novella ” in several editions, first in Latin, then also in Middle Low German , the copies of which differed from each other in that they were “refined” by him. The history of creation up to the year 1435 is presented in Latin as well as in Low German , depending on the version. As a result of recent research, he has contributed significantly to the creation of legends about Klaus Störtebeker . His chronicle probably served as a basis for several other chroniclers and is already controversially judged by the historians of the 19th century. Johann Martin Lappenberg and Georg Waitz emphasized the value of the chronicle, according to Waitz the continuations of the Detmar chronicle and the so-called Rufus chronicle build on the knowledge of the Korner chronicle. Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff and Ottokar Lorenz were largely skeptical . The latter spoke of a world historian with a local tendency . For research, therefore, the literary value of the chronicle predominates.

expenditure

• Jakob Schwalm (Ed.): The Cronica Novella of Hermann Korner. Göttingen 1895 ( digitized copy of the Marburg University Library )

literature

• Andreas Ludwig Jakob Michelsen :  Korner, Hermann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 707 f.
• Antjekathrin Graßmann :  Korner, Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 590 ( digitized version ).
• Katharina Colberg: Korner, Hermann OP. In: Author's Lexicon . 2nd Edition, Vol. 5, 1985, Col. 317-320
• Bengt Löfstedt: On H. Korner's Chronica novella. In: ALMA, Bulletin du Cange, 1990-1991, Vol. L, p. 107–118 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ quoted from ADB.

Web links

Wikisource: Hermann Korner  - Sources and full texts

• Hermann Korner in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
• Entry on the German manuscripts of the Chronica Novella in the manuscript census