Hunting literature
The hunting literature is printed and handwritten documents of all kinds related to hunting .
history
Antiquity
The first descriptions of hunting can already be found in the works of Roman and Greek writers. Roman authors were, for example, Tacitus , Grattius , Faliscus , Oppian , Nemesian and Pliny . Xenophon is one of the Greek writers . In his book Kynegetikos there are numerous indications for the behavior of the hunter , procedures of the hunt (especially for hares ) as well as for the breeding and training of hunting dogs .
middle Ages
In France towards the end of the 13th century in the didactic poem La chace dou cerf , also La chasse du cerf, the parforce hunt for deer is described in 522 verses. In 1486 Henri de Ferrieres published the first book Le livre du Roy Modus et de la reigne Ratio ( The hunting book of King Modus and Queen Ratio ), printed in French , which was the first hunting book to contain 56 miniatures . At the end of the 15th century, Gaston Phoebus published the richly illustrated hunting book Le livre de la chasse… . Other authors include Hardouin de Fontaine-Guerin with Tresor de Venerie 1394. In 1492 a falcon manuscript was printed by Guillaume Tardiff . In 1519 there was a work by Acquaviva on hunting and staining , and in 1590 the New Jägerbuch… by Jacoben von Fouilloux . The first comprehensive documentation on European hunting dogs, The Master of Game , was written in England by the Duke of York in 1413. This was followed by books by Sigmund Feyerabend in 1582 and Charles d'Arcussia de Capre Falconaria in 1598, its 5th edition in 1608 in Frankfurt a. M. appeared in German.
The oldest written traces of German hunting are probably the hexameters of Angilbert from 740 to 814. This portrayed the "great sow hunt" of Charlemagne , in which he primarily describes the hunted chopping of game . In the epic Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach around 1210 there are descriptions of hunting. The treatise De arte Bersandi by a German knight named Guicennans , which dates back to the 13th century, deals with the hunt # individual hunt . Also known is the work on the falconry of Emperor Friedrich II , created around 1260 : On the art of hunting with birds , a six-volume work, first published in 1596 and translated into German by Eberhard Pacius in 1756 . According to Kurt Lindner , around 1200 special hunting books were published in German-speaking countries between 1480 and 1850.
Modern times
Hunting works that are still important today include: B. The perfect German hunter , 1719/24 by Johann Friedrich von Flemming and Heinrich Wilhelm Döbel. Jäger-Practica or complete instruction for high and low hunting science , 1746. While the works of the older hunting authors still contain a lot of superstition , since the late 18th Century more scientific works published, z. B. Johann Matthäus Bechstein Complete manual of hunting science in five volumes (1801 to 1822), Carl Emil Diezel “Experiences from the area of Nieder-Jagd”, 1849 or Oskar von Riesenthal Das Weidwerk, manual of natural history, hunting and protection for everyone in Central Europe huntable animals , 1880. Hunting dictionaries and hunting lexicons are also appearing increasingly, e. B. Karl von Train “Complete dictionary of all hunting science”, 1838 and Raoul von Dombrowski et al. General encyclopedia of all forestry and hunting science in eight volumes (1886-1894). Hegewald : The working dog for hunting , 1881 and Ferdinand Freiherr von Raesfeld : Das Rotwild , 1899, Das Rehwild , 1906 are important to this day . Other authors are Hegendorf , Oberländer , Walter Frevert , Erhard Ueckermann , Egon Wagenknecht , Fritz Nüßlein , Richard Blase and Herbert Krebs .
literature
- Ilse Haseder , Gerhard Stinglwagner : Knaurs Großes Jagdlexikon , Augsburg 2000, p. 413ff. ISBN 3-8289-1579-5