Hermann von Wartberge
Hermann von Wartberge (* around 1330 in what is now Lower Saxony ; † around 1380 in Livonia ) was the chaplain of the Landmaster of the Teutonic Order in Livonia and a chronicler of Livonia.
Wartberge came from what is now Lower Saxony, and his family may have come from Warburg in Westphalia . A Hermann von Wartberge was mayor of Marsberg around 1278 and is possibly one of his ancestors.
Hermann von Wartberge was a priest and became chaplain to the Landmeister of the Teutonic Order in Livonia. He also served as an envoy several times for the order. So he traveled to Danzig in 1366 to enforce the order's claims against the Bishop of Riga .
He wrote a Chronicle of Livonia ( Chronicon Livoniae ). The script was written in Latin with many errors . It deals with the history of the country from the beginning up to the year 1378. For the beginning of the work Hermann von Wartberge relied on older written sources and partly also on oral tradition . The story was written in the spirit of the order. In the second part from 1358 onwards, he relied on oral traditions, documents available to him and on his own experiences. In the last few decades in particular, the chronicle has gained such value for historical research.
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- Chronicon Livoniae . Digitized
- Juozas Jurginis (Ed.): Livonijos kronikos. Henrikas Latvis, Hermanas Vartbergė , Vilnius 1991, ISBN 5-420-00466-6 .
- Ēvalds Mugurēvičs (ed.): Vartberges Hermaņa Livonijas hronika , Riga 2005, ISBN 998-4-601-44-7 .
literature
- Joseph Girgensohn: Hermann von Wartberge . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 185.
- Anneliese Triller : Hermann von Wartberge. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 652 ( digitized version ).
- Anti Selart : The Livonian Chronicle of Hermann von Wartberge , in: Matthias Thumser (Hrsg.): Geschistorschreibung im Medieval Livland, Berlin 2011, pp. 59–86.
- Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 572 f .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Evalds Mugurevičs: Hermanni de Wartberge Chronicon Livoniae on Lithuania in connection with the dates of archeology. Digitized
- Hermannus de Wartberge in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hermann von Wartberge |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hermannus de Wartberge |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chronicler of Livonia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1330 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lower Saxony |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1380 |
| Place of death | Livonia |