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.

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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)

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.

Regula Schmid Keeling: Johannes von Viktring. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

personal data
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