Johann Renner (chronicler)

Johann Renner (* 1525 in Tecklenburg ; † 1583 in Bremen , also Johannes Renner ) was a German notary and chronicler.

biography

Renner was probably born in Tecklenburg around 1525. He was married and had children. In 1554 he was a notary in Speyer . From 1556 to 1560 he worked for the German Order of Knights in Livonia . In 1561 he was a notary in the Kniphausen rule in Friesland . In 1562 he became secretary at the cathedral chapter of Bremen Cathedral . From 1564 to 1566 he was again a notary in Speyer. He returned to Bremen around 1567/68, was now employed by the Bremer Rath and lived on Sögestraße in the old town.

As a chronicler, Renner created the Liflandic History until 1580 , which was not printed until 1872–1876. It contains the records of the younger Livonian rhyming chronicle of events in Estonia and Livonia by the clergyman Bartholomäus Hoeneke from the 14th century, which are otherwise not preserved .

The Chronica of the City of Bremen  - also known as the "Renner Chronicle" - was created until 1580 and was supplemented by 1583. However, it was not printed in the original, but only as a rhyming chronicle. The Bremen state archivist Hermann Post (1693–1762) supplemented these works as an outline of Bremen's history up to 1754. Until 1583, Renner wrote the well-known Chronikon of the Löfliken olden city of Bremen in Sassen in Reimen . This Low German work was translated into High German by his son-in-law and doctor Johann Nannover in 1624.

Works

• Joh [ann] Renner's Livonian Histories and the Younger Livonian Rhyming Chronicle, Part 1 , (based on the manuscript in the Bremen State and University Library) ed. by Konstantin Höhlbaum, Göttingen 1872. [1]
• Johann Renner's Livländische Historien , Part 2, ed. by Richard Hausmann and Konstantin Höhlbaum, Göttingen 1876
• Livonian Histories: 1556-1561 , for the first time after the original ed. by Peter Karstedt , Lübeck 1953
• Chronica der Stadt Bremen , [based on the manuscript] ed. by Liselotte Klink, Bremen 1995. Part. 1: Anno 449 - anno 1511 Part 2: Anno 1511 - anno 1583
• Chronicon, Der Löfliken olden Stadt Bremen, in Sassen, so vele de most early history, which stand up in the Ertzstiffte and the city of Bremen, according to the Jar talle veruatet in dudesche veruatet . With Dieterich Glüichstein, Bremen 1583. online
• Chronicon, Der Löflichen olden Stadt Bremen, in Sassen, So vele de most noble history, de thogedragen in the Ertz-Stiffte and the city of Bremen, belanget, Vervatet according to the year-valley in Dudesche verse , Bremen: Wessel, 1642, Neudr. Stade: Holwein 1717 online

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Wilhelm von Bippen:  Renner, Johannes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 228-230.
• Ilse Schunk: The manuscripts of Renner's Bremer Chronik in the Bremen State Library . In: Bremisches Jahrbuch 33, 1931, pp. 158–172.

Web links

• Renner, Johannes in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"