Sigismund Gossembrot the Elder

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The chronicler Sigismund Meisterlin hands Sigismund Gossembrot (right) his Augsburger Chronik (book miniature by Sigismund Meisterlin, 1458)

Sigismund Gossembrot the Elder (* 1417 ; † January 31, 1493 in Strasbourg ) was an Augsburg humanist , businessman and mayor of the city.

Life

Sigismund Gossembrot came from an old patrician family in Augsburg. He studied at the University of Vienna in the 1430s and then lived as a businessman in Augsburg. He had intensive business relationships with the Fugger and Welser families .

Around 1450, Gossembrot in Augsburg became the center of a circle of humanists who had the monk and early humanist Sigismund Meisterlin (around 1435 - after 1497) write a newly conceived historiography of the city of Augsburg based on humanist ideas. Various copies of this chronicle with numerous illustrations have survived.

Sigismund Gossembrot was mayor of Augsburg in 1458 . From 1461 he withdrew to Strasbourg to the Johanniterkommende Foundation 'Zum Grünen Wörth' set up by Rulman Merswin , where he devoted himself to studying his private library and cultivated contacts with Alsatian humanists.

literature

  • Friedrich Roth:  Gossembrot, Sigmund . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, pp. 475-479.
  • Wilhelm Wattenbach : Sigismund Gossembrot as a champion of the humanists and his opponents . Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine 25 (1873), pp. 36–69. [not evaluated]
  • Paul Joachimsohn : From Sigismund Gossembrot's library, in: Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 11 (1894), pp. 249–268, 297–307.
  • Friedrich Blendinger : Sigmund Gossembrot 'in: Neue Deutsche Bibliographie, Vol. 6, Munich 1964, pp. 648–649.
  • Gunther Gottlieb, Wolfram Baer, ​​Josef Becker, Josef Bellot, Karl Filser, Pankraz Fried, Wolfgang Reinhard, Bernhard Schimmelpfennig (ed.): History of the city of Augsburg from Roman times to the present. Konrad Theiss, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8062-0283-4 , p. 244f. u. 277.
  • Michael Stolz: Sigmund Gossembrot. Side lights on his library and reading practice. In: Pirckheimer Jahrbuch 29 (2015), pp. 123–157.

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personal data
SURNAME Gossembrot, Sigismund the Elder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Augsburg humanist, businessman and mayor of the city
DATE OF BIRTH 1417
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1493
Place of death Strasbourg