Peter of Dusburg

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Chronicon terrae Prussiae edition of 1679

Peter von Dusburg , also Peter von Duisburg , was a chronicler of the Teutonic Order .

Peter von Dusburg lived approximately from the second half of the 13th to the first half of the 14th century, but his exact life dates are unknown. His main work Chronicon Terrae Prussiae ("Chronicle of Prussia") was written by the Teutonic order priest in Königsberg during the time of Grand Master Werner von Orselen . He handed over the work to him in 1326. Additions to his chronicle extend to 1330. The work was intended as a table reading for the friars. The text begins in 1190. The work describes the military history of the order in Prussia and the aim is to exhort the friars not to slacken in the fight against the heathen. In addition, peculiarities of the pagan Prussians are named, with details on their beliefs, sanctuaries and cults (see Baltic mythology ). The chronicle has only survived in copies from the 15th century. It achieved a wider impact when it was translated into German verse by Nikolaus von Jeroschin in the 14th century. Dusburg's chronicle has been critically commented on by Max Toeppen and other historians.

Works

  • Chronicon terrae Prussiae. Edited by Max Toeppen. In: Scriptores rerum Prussicarum , Volume 1, Leipzig 1861, pp. 3-219. ( Online )
  • Petri de Dusburg Chronica Terre Prussie / Peter von Dusburg, Chronicle of Prussia. Translation and explanation by Klaus Scholz and Dieter Wojtecki. (= Selected sources on German history in the Middle Ages. Volume 25). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1984, ISBN 3-534-00604-6 .
  • Petrus de Dusburgk, Chronica Terrae Prussiae. Edited by Jaroslaw Wenta u. a. Slawomir Wyszomirski. (= Monumenta Poloniae Historica, nova series, volume 13). Krakow 2007.

literature

  • Helmut Bauer: Peter von Dusburg and the historiography of the Teutonic Order in Prussia (= historical studies. Vol. 272). Ebering, Berlin 1935.
  • Hartmut Boockmann : The historiography of the Teutonic Order. Generic issues and "usage situations". 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, here: pp. 449-454 ( digitized version ).
  • Hartmut Boockmann: Peter von Dusburg . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 6, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-7608-8906-9 , Sp. 1937th
  • Karl Lohmeyer :  Dusburg, Peter von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 492.
  • Klaus-Eberhard Murawski:  von Dusberg, Peter. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 204 ( digitized version ).
  • Jürgen Sarnowsky : The historical self-image of the spiritual orders of knights. In: Journal of Church History . 110: 315-330 (1999).
  • Jarosław Wenta: The Teutonic Order Priest Peter von Dusburg and his efforts for the spiritual education of the lay brothers. In: Roman Czaja and Jürgen Sarnowsky (eds.): Self-image and self-understanding of the spiritual orders of knights (= Ordines militares. Volume 13). Wydawnictwo Universytetu Mikolaja Kopernika, Toruń 2005, pp. 115–125.
  • Jarosław Wenta: Comments on the function of a medieval historiographical text: The Chronicle of Peter von Dusburg. In: Theo Kölzer , Franz-Albrecht Bornschlegel, Christian Friedl, Georg Vogeler (eds.): De litteris, manuscriptis, inscriptionibus. Festschrift for Walter Koch's 65th birthday. Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2007, ISBN 3-205-77615-1 , pp. 675-685.
  • Marcus Wüst:  Peter von Dusburg. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 34, Bautz, Nordhausen 2013, ISBN 978-3-88309-766-4 , Sp. 1074-1076.
  • Marcus Wüst: On the origin and reception of the "Chronicle of Prussia" Peters von Dusburg . In: Bernhart Jähnig , Arno Mentzel-Reuters (Ed.): New studies on literature in the Teutonic Order (= magazine for German antiquity and German literature . Supplement 18). S. Hirzel, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-7776-2236-1 , pp. 197-209.
  • Dieter Wojtecki: Studies on the personal history of the Teutonic Order in the 13th century (= sources and studies on the history of Eastern Europe. Volume 3). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1971 (also: partial print of the philos. Dissertation, Münster 1968).

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SURNAME Peter of Dusburg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peter of Duisburg; Petrus de Dusburg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chronicler of the Teutonic Order
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH 14th Century