Jakob Twinger from Königshofen
Jakob Twinger von Königshofen (* 1346 in Strasbourg ; † December 27, 1420 in Königshofen near Strasbourg) was a German historian.
Live and act
Jakob Twinger von Königshofen entered the clergy and was ordained a priest in 1382 . In 1384 he became a pastor in Drusenheim and in 1395 a canon at the Thomasstift in Strasbourg.
First he wrote a chronicle in Latin that was never printed, then one in German, which deals with world history in three chapters , then in two that of the Strasbourg Church, Alsace and the city of Strasbourg, and for the period from 1382 to 1414 is of value as a contemporary source . His portrayal is popular and entertaining with legends, anecdotes and popular jokes. Numerous manuscripts attest to the fame of the work. Twinger's handwritten manuscripts were destroyed by German bombardment on the night of August 24-25, 1870 during the siege of Strasbourg in the Franco-German War .
The original part and an excerpt from it, which was continued until 1420, which first appeared in Augsburg in 1474 and was re- edited by Johann Schilter (Strasbourg 1698) with historical annotations and copperplate engravings, Hegel has included in the Chronicles of the German Cities (Volumes 8 and 9 : Strasbourg Chronicles , Leipzig 1870–1871) published.
Today there is a college in Königshofen that bears his name.
literature
- Veronika Feller-Vest: Twinger von Königshofen, Jakob. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Karl von Hegel : Jakob von Königshofen . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 525 f.
- Carl Hegel: The Chronicle of Jakob Twinger von Königshofen (The Chronicles of the German Cities, Vol. 8/9), Leipzig 1870–1871 ( Digitized Vol. 8 , Vol. 9 ).
- Franz Hofinger: Studies on the German chronicles of the Fritsche Closener from Strasbourg and Jakob Twinger from Koenigshofen , Univ., Diss., Munich 1974.
- Klaus Kirchert (Ed.): The vocabulary of Fritsche Closener and Jakob Twinger von Königshofen. Tradition historical edition , 3 volumes, (Texts and Text History, Vols. 40–42), Tübingen 1995, ISBN 3-484-36040-2 .
- Klaus Kirchert: Urban historiography and school literature. Reception history studies on the work of Fritsche Closener and Jakob Twinger von Königshofen , (Knowledge literature in the Middle Ages, Vol. 12), Wiesbaden 1993, ISBN 3-88226-556-6 .
- Dorothea Klein, Gert Melville: Twinger, Jakob, von Königshofen , in: The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon . 2nd edition, Vol. 9, Col. 1181-1193.
- Anne Knöppler: The German Chronicle of Jakob Twinger von Königshofen , Univ., Diss., Münster 1954.
- Johannes Madey: TWINGER, Jakob ("von Königshofen"). In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 17, Bautz, Herzberg 2000, ISBN 3-88309-080-8 , Sp. 1397-1398.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Alteste Teutsche as well general as in particular Alsace and Strasbourg Chronicle. Described by Jacob von Königshoven priests in Strasbourg From the beginning of the world bit into the year after the birth of Christ MCCC LXXXVI . Anjetzo published for the first time and given in Truck with historical notes by D. Johann Schiltern. Strasbourg 1698 ( online ).
- ↑ Online version at archive.org .
Web links
- Jacobus Twinger von Königshofen in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
- Handwriting transmission from the German Chronicle at the handwriting census
- Handwriting tradition of the Vocabularius de significatione nominum in the manuscript census
- http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/de/list/all/title/pnd_119152355 ( Memento from April 7, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) in Swiss libraries
- Works by Jakob Twinger von Königshofen in the complete catalog of incidental prints
- The Schilter edition in VD 17
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jakob Twinger from Königshofen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1346 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Strasbourg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 27, 1420 |
| Place of death | Königshofen near Strasbourg |