Jakob Mennel

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Jakob Mennel presented his work “Die Fürstliche Chronickh” to King Maximilian I and probably his daughter Margarethe . Miniature of the so-called Mennel master in the "pointer", Freiburg 1518 (Vienna, Austrian National Library , Cod. 7892, Bl. 2r).

Jakob Mennel , also latinized Manlius (* around 1460 in Bregenz ; † before January 9, 1525 in Freiburg ) was an Austrian lawyer, court historian of Maximilian I and genealogist .

life and work

Jakob Mennel was the son of Dorothea Mennel, who was accused of being a fortune teller and witch, and Jos Mennel, a citizen of Bregenz. In 1477 he began to study at the newly founded University of Tübingen and was there in 1481 Baccalaureus artium and 1484 Magister artium . In Freiburg im Breisgau he began to study law and became a doctor of both rights. In 1496 he became town clerk in Freiburg and in 1500 he was chancellor of the Johanniter in Heitersheim . In 1505 Maximilian appointed him imperial council.

His main work is the “Princely Chronicle” handed over to Maximilian in 1518, the Cronica Hapsburgensis nuper rigmatice . A history of the House of Habsburg based on genealogy in rhyme form. In it a descent of the House of Habsburg from the Merovingians was constructed, as Chlothar I was assigned a son Odoperth , the ancestor of the Habsburgs.

Mennel also wrote a rhymed guide to the game of chess ( Schachzabel game ), which is based on the work of Konrad von Ammenhausen and was printed in 1520 in Oppenheim , among other places .

literature

  • Karl Heinz Burmeister :  Mennel, Jakob. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , pp. 83-85 ( digitized version ).
  • Karl Heinz Burmeister: His career began at the Freiburg Reichstag. The lawyer and historian Dr. Jakob Mennel (1460–1526) . In: Hans Schadek (ed.): The emperor in his city. Maximilian I and the Diet of Freiburg 1498 . Kore-Edition, Freiburg im Breisgau 1998, ISBN 3-933056-64-0 , pp. 94-113 ( digitized version ; PDF; 4.4 MB).
  • Adalbert Horawitz :  Jakob Mennel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, pp. 358-362.
  • Clemens Joos: Jakob Mennel . In: Killy Literaturlexikon 8 (2010), pp. 165f.
  • Tanja Reinhardt: The Habsburg saints of Jakob Mennel . Dissertation. University of Freiburg, Freiburg 2002, full text online .
  • Regula Schmid Keeling: Mennel, Jakob. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • Peter-Johannes Schuler: Notaries in Southwest Germany. Text tape . Stuttgart 1987, pp. 296-300
  • Linda Elise Webers: Genealogical legitimation of power in text and images. The 'Princely Chronicle' of Jakob Mennels and its location in the Gedechtnus work of Maximilian I. Dissertation TU Dresden 2015, published in 2017 by qucosa

Web links

Wikisource: Jakob Mennel  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mennel (Manlius), Jakob. In: Author's Lexicon . Volume VI, Col. 389 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Mennel, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer, historiographer and genealogist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1460
PLACE OF BIRTH Bregenz
DATE OF DEATH before March 6, 1526
Place of death Freiburg