Konrad Bitschin

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Konrad Bitschin (* around 1400 in Danzig ; † after 1464) was a German theologian, lawyer and chronicler.

Bitschin was born in Danzig to a family from Silesia . In the period 1431-1436 he worked as a town clerk in Kulm . In this function he accompanied the embassy to Emperor Sigismund from 1434-1435 . Later he held church offices: he was pastor in Rosenberg and Schwetz and in 1464 vicar of the altar of St. Michael zu Kulm.

In 1431 Bitschin compiled the Kulmer Stadtbuch, which was continued by another hand until 1450 (today in the possession of the Secret State Archives - Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin). In 1432 he completed the nine-volume encyclopedic work De vita coniugali . He was the author of a continuation, written in Latin, of Peter von Dusburg's Chronica terrae Prussiae (Chronicle of Prussia ) for the period 1332-1433, which he submitted in 1435 and which was published in 1866 by Max Töppen with comments. He also made a copy of the Kulmer Handfeste , which can be found in the above-mentioned Kulmer Stadtbuch.

Konrad Bitschin was the father of Ambrosius Bitschin , who was the town clerk in Liegnitz .

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  1. There kept under the signature XX. HA State Archive Königsberg OF 83.
  2. Part edition: Konrad Bitschins Pedagogy. The fourth book of the encyclopedic work De vita coniugali . According to the Latin manuscript for the first time, ed. With a German translation, historical-literary introduction, as well as explanations and comments by R. Galle, Gotha 1905.
  3. ^ Scriptores rerum Prussicarum . Volume 3, Leipzig 1866. ( contemporary review )

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