Johann Petersen (chronicler)

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Johann Petersen (around 1500 in Hoisdorf ; † 1552 in Oldenburg in Holstein , also Johannes Petersen ) was a German clergyman and chronicler.

Life

Johann Petersen was the son of a blacksmith in Hoisdorf, which at that time belonged to the Hamburg cathedral chapter and later came to the Trittau office . Nothing is known about his training. He was ordained a priest and chaplain at the St. Johannis Church (Oldenburg in Holstein) .

In the course of the Reformation , the last Catholic pastor, Johann Pregel, resigned from his office in 1531; at the same time, the church patronage passed through the St. John's Church from the hands of the sovereign to the city's magistrate. The magistrate appointed Johann Petersen as the first Protestant main pastor. He remained in this office until the end of his life. He had a (successor) successor of the same name, with whom he was sometimes confused.

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Presumably shortly after 1531 Petersen wrote a chronicle of Holstein , Stormarn , Dithmarschen and Wagrien . A presumed original in Middle Low German has not been preserved. His sources include the works of Albert Krantz and the Chronicon Holtzatiae (Holstein Chronicle) of Presbyter Bremensis from the mid-14th century.

The chronicle was published only after the death of the author. Dominicus Dräuer / Drever, who came from Goslar and was active in Lüneburg at the time, translated it into High German and published it in Frankfurt / Main in 1557 . Further editions appeared in Lübeck in 1599 and 1614 and in Rinteln in 1627. Adam Tratziger was one of those who used it for their own chronological works, as did the Lübeck chronicler Heinrich Christian Schultze.

After that, it was forgotten; it was not until Ernst Christian Kruse drew attention to them again in 1820 in Schleswig-Holstein's provincial reports. He then made the chronicle legible for our times and reissued it in 1827 and 1828 in 2 volumes.

In the opinion of Franz Xaver von Wegele , Petersen's chronicle is without a doubt one of the better national histories of the first half of the century. Petersen admittedly accepted older reports relatively uncritically, but his particular strength lay in the description of the government of Duke and King Frederick I and the circumstances in which Christian II was deposed .

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  • Chronica || der Lande zu Holsten / Stor = || marn / Ditmarschen vnd Wagern / Zeitbuch / Wer die || Country governs / What happened in it for the birth of Christ / || bit into the MDXXXj. Jar… || described || by || Mr. Johann Petersen. || Braubach, Frankfurt / Main 1557, P 1694 im VD 16. , Urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10861071-4
  • Chronica || Or Zeitbuch / der Lande zu || Holsten / Stormarn / Ditmarschen vnd Wagern / Who the same || Lender rules / what happens before the birth of Christ / bit into the MDXXXj. || Year in it happened… || Who founded the Bischoffthumb there / next to a drawing of the names / the Bisschoffe in Hamburg / Aldenburg || vnd L # [ue] beck… || Furthermore / like the Hertzogthumb Schleßwick to the Graffen zu Holsten || come ... || described. Albrecht, Lübeck 1599, P 1695 in VD 16. , Urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10986378-8
  • Chronica or Zeitbuch / der Lande zu Holsten / Stormarn / Ditmarschen / and Wagern / Who rules the same country / What happens before the birth of Christ / bit into the MDXXXI. Year in it added: Item / of their beliefs / customs / habits / jugs and changes in the regiments. Who founded the Bischoffthumb there ... Furthermore / how the Hertzogthumb Schleßwick came to the Graffen at Holsten ... Jauch, Lübeck 1614, 14: 079112W in VD 17 .
  • Johann Petersen's Chronica or Zeitbuch der Lande zu Holstein, Stormarn, Ditmarschen and Wagrien. Made readable for our time by Ernst Christian Kruse. Hammerich, Altona 1827

literature

  • Johann Moller : Cimbria Literata. Volume 1: Scriptores universos Indigenas, hisqve immistos complures, qvorum Patria explorari necdum potuit comprehendens. Orphanothrophium Regium u. a., Copenhagen 1744, p. 487 .
  • Carsten Erich Carstens:  Petersen, Johannes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 505 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ADB (lit.)
  2. ^ Johann Martin Lappenberg : Tratziger's Chronica of the City of Hamburg . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1865, p. LVIII
  3. ↑ Sascha Möbius: The memory of the imperial city: riots and wars in the Luebeck chronicle and culture of remembrance of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period (forms of remembrance 37). V&R unipress, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89971-898-0 , p. 126
  4. ^ Carsten Erich Carstens:  Kruse, Ernst Christian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 262 f.
  5. ^ Franz Xaver von Wegele: History of German historiography since the appearance of humanism. Munich 1885, p. 306
personal data
SURNAME Petersen, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petersen, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman and chronicler
DATE OF BIRTH around 1500
PLACE OF BIRTH Hoisdorf
DATE OF DEATH 1552
Place of death Oldenburg in Holstein