Johannes Knebel

Johannes Knebel (* 1413/1415; † 1481 or 1483 ) was a cleric , notary and chronicler from Basel .

life and work

Johannes Knebel, son of the guild master zu Webern, studied at the University of Erfurt from 1432 . In 1435 he received his doctorate in Heidelberg as a Bachelor of Artium . After his ordination in 1441 Knebel was chaplain of the Basel cathedral provost Georg von Andlau , also canon of Lautenbach (Alsace), imperial notary and from 1460 notary of the newly founded University of Basel . He wrote a three-volume chronicle of current affairs called the "Diarium" . The two surviving volumes cover the years 1473–1479 and contain copied and attached documents, summaries, reports and comments. The chronicle is an important source on the situation of the city of Basel during the Burgundian Wars .

Works

Wilhelm Vischer (Ed.): Johannis Knebel capellani ecclesiae Basiliensis diarium (= Basler Chroniken . Volumes 2 and 3). Hirzel, Leipzig 1880/1887 (digital copies: Volume 2 , Volume 3 ).

literature

Fritz Meier: Basel local history. Local history reader of Basel. 5th edition. Basel 1974, p. 608 f.
Friedrich Meyer: The relations between Basel and the confederates in the presentation of the historiography of the 15th and 16th centuries (= Basel contributions to historical science. Vol. 39). Basel 1951, pp. 67-78.
Peter-Johannes Schuler: Knebel, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 168 f. ( Digitized version ).
Wilhelm Vischer : Knebel, Johannes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 275.

Web links

Wikisource: Burgundian Wars - Sources and full texts

Regula Schmid Keeling: Knebel, Johannes. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Knebel, Johannes in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"

Individual evidence

^ Regula Schmid Keeling: Knebel, Johannes. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
↑ Peter-Johannes Schuler: Knebel, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 168 f. ( Digitized version ).

personal data
SURNAME	Knebel, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss cleric, notary and chronicler
DATE OF BIRTH	between 1413 and 1415
DATE OF DEATH	1481 or 1483

[1] Regula Schmid Keeling: Knebel, Johannes. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

[2] Peter-Johannes Schuler: Knebel, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 168 f. ( Digitized version ).