Johann von Viktring
Johann von Viktring (* around 1270 ; † between July 30, 1345 and October 31, 1347 ) was a medieval historian and from 1312 until his death abbot of the Cistercian monastery Viktring near Klagenfurt .
He was the trusted court chaplain and scribe of the last Duke of Gorizia in Carinthia, Heinrich VI. of Carinthia and Tyrol , and of his daughter Margarete , then of the Habsburg Duke Albrecht II of Austria . From 1341 he wrote the work " Liber certarum historiarum " , a chronicle in six books, which recorded important events from 1217 to 1343.
expenditure
- Johann von Viktring, Liber certarum historiarum , 2 volumes, ed. by Fedor Schneider (Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum separatim editi 36, 1-2). Hanover / Leipzig 1909–1910 ( digitized version )
- Alphons Lhotsky (Ed.): Johann von Viktring: Cronica Romanorum. Verlag des Landesmuseum für Kärnten, Klagenfurt 1960 (critical edition)
literature
- Urban Bassi: Studies on the historiography of Johann von Viktring. Klagenfurt 1997.
- Heinz Dopsch : Johann von Viktring . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 5, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-7608-8905-0 , Sp. 519 f.
- Siegfried Haider : Johann von Viktring. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 574 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Eugen Hillenbrand : The historian Johann von Viktring as a political educator. In: Helmut Maurer, Hans Patze (Ed.): Festschrift for Berent Schwineköper. For his seventieth birthday. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1982, ISBN 3-7995-7020-9 , pp. 437-454.
Web links
- Literature by and about Johann von Viktring in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Johann von Viktring in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Iohannes Victoriensis in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
- Regula Schmid Keeling: Johannes von Viktring. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
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SURNAME | Johann von Viktring |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Historian, abbot of the Cistercian monastery Viktring near Klagenfurt |
DATE OF BIRTH | around 1270 |
DATE OF DEATH | between July 30, 1345 and October 31, 1347 |