Melchior Russ
Melchior Russ or soot (* around 1450 in Lucerne ; † July 20, 1499 ) was a Swiss historian .
Russ was a council clerk in Lucerne. In 1479 and 1488 he went as an envoy to Matthias Corvinus , King of Hungary , who knighted him, and fell in the Swabian War in 1499.
From 1482 to 1488 he wrote a Lucerne Chronicle that extended to 1412 , one of the oldest historical works that reports on Wilhelm Tell (published by J. Schneller, Kopp and Wurstemberger, Bern 1834 and 1838).
Works
literature
- Theodor von Liebenau: Knight Melchior soot of Lucerne. Lecture given in the historical association in Lucerne . In: Blätter für Wissenschaft, Kunst und Leben from Catholic Switzerland , vol. 12 (1870), p. 299 ff.
- Theodor von Liebenau: Soot Melchior . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, pp. 9-11.
- August Bernoulli : The Lucerne Chronicle of Melchior Russ , Basel 1872
- Maya Vonarburg: Melchior Russ: Cronika. A Lucerne chronicle from around 1482 , Zurich 2009.
Web links
- Melchior Russ in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
- Gregor Egloff: Russ, Melchior. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Russ, Melchior |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Soot, Melchior |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1450 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lucerne |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 20, 1499 |