Johann Russe

Johann Russe (* around 1506 in Lunden ; † 1555 ) was a chronicler of the history of Dithmarsch .

Russe was the son of a landowner in Norderdithmarschen . He was probably born before 1506, his last note going back to an event in 1555.

He received his first lessons from the local chaplain, and he probably later studied law at a German university. His writings reveal a knowledge of Latin and Greek. Russe lived as a citizen in Lunden and was made forty-eight , that is, co-regent. His interest in the Dithmarsch past showed itself in different ways: He collected chronicles, books, battle songs, news from church registers and old copies of the state laws.

The Eiderstedt Chronicle (reporting years 1103 to 1547) contained in a codex of Russe was probably written by the land clerk Dirck Scriver, a member of a farm owner family in the Eiderstedt region with the participation of his brother Wenni Sywens from around 1472 and was continued several times by other family members.

Russes early death prevented the creation of a planned national history. After the conquest of the country, his material ended up in the royal library in Copenhagen ; only a part was published. Russe provided important sources for the work of the most important Dithmarsch chronicler, Neocorus , who only knew parts of the collection.

Works

Johann Russe: Chronick of the Nordt-Eluischen Sassen, the Dietmarschen Stormarn vnde Holsten . In: ALJ Michelsen (Hrsg.): Johann Russe's, Forty-eighth from Lunden, collections and preparatory work for the chronicle of the country of Dithmarschen. Communicated from the original . In: Citizenship Magazine . Volume 9, 1829, pp. 343-380.
Johann Russe: Vita & Martyrium Hinr. Zutphani, in Ditmarsia combusti a. 1524. Ex Renneri Chronico Bremensi MSC, Tom. 2. ad a. 1522. Where Gade's word first started to preach to Bremen . In: EJ v. Westphalen (Ed.): Monumenta inedita rerum Germanicarum praecique Cimbricarum et Megapolensium . Volume 4, Leipzig 1745, Col. 1464-1471.
Johann Russe: Eiderstedtische Chronik . In: ALJ Michelsen (Hrsg.): Johann Russe's, Forty-eighth from Lunden, collections and preparatory work for the chronicle of the country of Dithmarschen. Communicated from the original . In: Citizenship Magazine . Volume 9, 1829, pp. 696-723.
Johann Russe: Henning Swyn from Lunden . In: Chronicle of the Land of Dithmarschen . Second volume, pages 459–462, edited from the original by Prof. Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann , Kiel 1827

literature

Carsten Erich Carstens : Russe, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 13 f.
Angela Lüdtke: On the chronicle of the country Dithmarschen by Johann Adolph Köster, called Neocorus . 1992, p. 143. Heide, ISBN 3-8042-0573-9
R. Hansen: The Dithmarian chronicler Johann Russe and his predecessors . In: ZSHG , Volume 29, pp. 1-86.

Individual evidence

↑ Grave plate No. 41 in the Lunden family cemetery, an angel holds two coats of arms, on the left with the three crucian carp of the Russebellingmannen, on the right with the column of the Sulemanni, excerpt: "ANNO DOMINI 1555 OF THURSDAY IN FRONT OF PALM. IS GROTE IOHAN ROS FORESE OF THE LAND OF DITMERSCHEN CHRISTIANLY PREVENTED THE GOT WIL GNDICH SIN "
↑ On the life data cf. Hansen, 8f., 83
↑ Klaus Werdt: 'Gemeine Eiderstedtische Chronik'. In: Burghart Wachinger et al. (Hrsg.): The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon . 2nd, completely revised edition, ISBN 3-11-022248-5 , Volume 2: Comitis, Gerhard - Gerstenberg, Wigand. Berlin / New York 1980, col. 1191.

personal data
SURNAME	Russian, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chronicler of the history of Dithmarsch
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1506
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lunden
DATE OF DEATH	1555

[1] Grave plate No. 41 in the Lunden family cemetery, an angel holds two coats of arms, on the left with the three crucian carp of the Russebellingmannen, on the right with the column of the Sulemanni, excerpt: "ANNO DOMINI 1555 OF THURSDAY IN FRONT OF PALM. IS GROTE IOHAN ROS FORESE OF THE LAND OF DITMERSCHEN CHRISTIANLY PREVENTED THE GOT WIL GNDICH SIN "

[2] On the life data cf. Hansen, 8f., 83

[3] Klaus Werdt: 'Gemeine Eiderstedtische Chronik'. In: Burghart Wachinger et al. (Hrsg.): The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon . 2nd, completely revised edition, ISBN 3-11-022248-5 , Volume 2: Comitis, Gerhard - Gerstenberg, Wigand. Berlin / New York 1980, col. 1191.