Johannes Rode (Council Secretary)

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Johannes Rode , also Latinized Johannes Ruffus (* approx. 1280 ; † 1349 in Lübeck ) was a German lawyer, council secretary ( city ​​clerk ) of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck and chronicler.

Life

Fragment of the oldest Lübeck council line with entries from Rode

Rode, who probably came from a bourgeois family from Lübeck, probably studied at the University of Orléans around 1300 and was then Lübeck's procurator at the papal court in Avignon . From 1307 to 1349 he worked as town clerk and council secretary in Lübeck.

He is since the research of Karl Koppmann draftsman only indirectly handed Stade Chronicle . To this end, he first wrote a history of Lübeck from the beginnings of the city in 1105 to the city fire in 1276. It was the first attempt at an official city history. In 1347 he wrote another chronicle, which went on to his present day and was continued a little later until 1349. Later sequels were made by the reading master Detmar and by the so-called Rufus Chronicle in the 15th century.

Recently, Klaus Wriedt has questioned the attribution of the town chronicle to Rode. He is convinced that "the chronicle of 1347 is neither written by a town clerk nor identical with the 'city chronicle', but is in the tradition of mendicant orders and was probably created in Lübeck's Katharinenkloster ."

expenditure

  • The chronicles of the cities of Lower Saxony, Lübeck, vol. 1. (Chronicles of German cities 19) 1884 (reprint 1967), pp. 7–114
  • The chronicles of the cities of Lower Saxony, Lübeck, vol. 2. (Chronicles of German cities 26) 1899 (reprint 1967), pp. 281–284 (excerpt)

literature

  • Karl Koppmann : The Lübeck city history and its derivations. In: Hansische Geschichtsblätter 25 (1897), pp. 149-204
  • AC Højberg Christensen: Studier over Lybaek's Kancellisprog fra c. 1300-1470. Copenhagen 1918, pp. 51-54
  • Friedrich Bruns : The author of the Lübeck city history. In: Zeitschrift des Verein für Lübeckische Geschichte und Altertumskunde 26 (1932) pp. 247–276
  • Friedrich Bruns: The older Lübschen council lines. In: Zeitschrift für Lübeckische Geschichte 27 (1933), p. 35
  • Friedrich Bruns: The Lübeck syndicists and council secretaries until the constitutional amendment of 1851. In: Zeitschrift für Lübeckische Geschichte 29 (1938), p. 121
  • Klaus Wriedt: Historiography in the Wendish Hanseatic cities. In: Hans Patze (ed.): Historiography and historical consciousness in the late Middle Ages (= lectures and research. Volume 31). Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1987, ISBN 3-7995-6631-7 , pp. 447-469 ( online ).
  • Klaus Wriedt: Rode, Johannes. In: Author's Lexicon - The German Literature of the Middle Ages. (²VL) Volume 8, Col. 121/122

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rufus Chronicle. In: Author's Lexicon . Volume VIII, Col. 378 f.
  2. ^ Rufus Chronicle in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
  3. ^ Wriedt, ²VL
personal data
SURNAME Johannes Rode
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johannes Ruffus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, Council Secretary of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck and chronicler
DATE OF BIRTH around 1280
DATE OF DEATH 1349
Place of death Lübeck