Konrad Justinger

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Konrad Justinger (* before 1370 probably in Rottweil ; † 1438 in Zurich ), town clerk and chronicler of Bern .

Life

Justinger probably came from Rottweil and had immigrated to Bern together with his brother Werner in 1390 at the latest. He received civil rights there in 1391 and married Anna Wirz after 1426, with whom he moved to her home town of Zurich in 1432.

Justinger's activity as town clerk from 1384 to 1393 and from 1411 to 1416, as stated in the ADB , is to be seen somewhat modified according to more recent sources:

“J. [Justinger] is only explicitly referred to as Bern's town clerk in a document from 1400, otherwise he appears as a clerk (1406-07 as builder clerk) and notary. His handwriting appears in a number of Bern chancellery books, for example in the Udel Book of 1390, in the Book of Statutes from 1398, in the Book of Liberty from 1431 and in a copy of the Habsburg land register after 1415. "

- Regula Schmid Keeling : Justinger, Konrad in the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland, March 17, 2010

Works

In 1388 Justinger copied a text on the calculation of time by the Strasbourg chronicler Jakob Twinger von Königshofen ( Computus novus chirometralis ).

With a subsequent work, Anonyme Stadtchronik or Kleine Berner Chronik , Konrad Justinger recommended himself to the Bern Council as a chronicler for the commission for the Bern Chronicle, for which he is known today:

In 1420 the city council decided, encouraged by the long-time mayor Rudolf Hofmeister,

“That the city of Bern should bring together past and great things, which are really useful and good to know and hear, and read together with the truth, except for old books and chronicles, to prove the truth, and of underwisung age praised lüten, umb daz si and your descendants may know the aforementioned ir stat Berne harkomen and opportunity. "

Justinger, who had recently resigned from his office, received the relevant assignment. According to his own statements, he used “the letters, so in the stat kisten ligent”, that is, the documents of the city archive , to write his work . Text comparisons show that he also included the so-called Chronica de Berno , i.e. the entries in the Bern Minster's year book from the beginning of the 14th century, and the small Narratio conflictus apud Laupen about the Battle of Laupen in 1339, which was also included in the 14th century. Century was written.

Justinger's work, which according to the commission extended to the year 1420 and perhaps only to 1417, is partly unreliable in the chronological information, but is characterized by a lively narrative and a simple but powerful language. The recording of some historical folk songs is particularly valuable .

Editions

  • E. Stierlin (Ed.): Conrad Justinger's Berner Chronik: from the beginning of the city of Bern to the year 1421 . Bern 1819.
  • G. Studer (ed.): The Bern Chronicle of Conrad Justinger . Bern 1871.

literature

  • J.-P. Bodmer: Chronicles and chroniclers in the late Middle Ages . Bern 1976, pp. 10-15.
  • Richard Feller , Edgar Bonjour : Historiography of Switzerland from the late Middle Ages to the modern age . Basel and Stuttgart, 2nd ed. 1979, pp. 7-11
  • R. Gamper: The Zurich city chronicles and their expansion into Eastern Switzerland . Zurich 1984, pp. 147–154.
  • K. Kirchert: Urban historiography and school literature . Wiesbaden 1993, pp. 49-57.
  • Eduard von Rodt : Nydegg Castle and the founding of the city of Bern: according to the chronicle of Konrad Justinger . Bern 1919.
  • Hans Strahm: The chronicler Conrad Justinger and his Berner Chronik from 1420 (= writings of the Berner Burgerbibliothek ). Stämpfli Bern 1978.
  • GL Studer: Studies on Justinger . Bern 1861–1867.
  • Jean-François Bergier : Wilhelm Tell : Reality and Myth . Translated from the French by Josef Winiger, List, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-471-77168-9 ; Römerhof, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-905894-16-5 .
  • Kathrin Jost: Konrad Justinger (approx. 1365–1438). Chronicler and financier in Bern's heyday (= Constance working group for medieval history : lectures and research ; special volume 56). Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7995-6766-4 (Dissertation University of Bern 2011, 488 pages ( full text online ) PDF, free of charge, 488 pages, 129 MB).

Magazine and newspaper articles

  • Vinzenz Bartlome, Urs Martin Zahnd : Konrad Justinger's founding legend , in: RC Schwinges (Ed.): Bern's courageous time: the 13th and 14th centuries rediscovered . Bern 2003, pp. 20–24.
  • E. Bohnenblust: The historians of Bern: from Konrad Justinger to Richard Feller , in: Bärner Brattig 4, 2004, pp. 18-20.
  • Adolf Fluri: Konrad Justinger's handwriting , in: Anz. for switzerland. Business NF 8, 1899, pp. 128ff.
  • Adolf Fluri: Justinger and his chronicle , in: Anz. for switzerland. Business NF 10, 1906, p. 57ff.
  • A. Perrin: Directory of the handwritten copies of Konrad Justinger's Berner Chronik , in: Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Heimatkunde 4, 1950, pp. 204–229.

Biographical reference works

Web links

Individual documents and notes

  1. ^ A b c Regula Schmid Keeling: Konrad Justinger. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 17, 2010 , accessed June 8, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Jean-François Bergier (see literature) even suspects that Justinger himself came from Strasbourg.
  3. ↑ a b c Blösch In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.
personal data
SURNAME Justinger, Konrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Justinger, Conrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION City clerk and chronicler of Bern
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1438
Place of death Zurich