Gerold Edlibach

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Edlibach's Zurich Chronicle
Edlibach's house "zum Steinernen Erggel" on Oberdorfstrasse in Zurich
Plaque

Gerold Edlibach (born September 24, 1454 in Zurich ; † August 28, 1530 in Zurich) was a Zurich chronicler and councilor.

Life

Gerold Edlibach was born in 1454 as the son of Ulrich Edlibach († 1462), bailiff of Einsiedeln , and Anna Landolt. In his second marriage, his mother, whose family had made it prosperous through the iron trade, was married to the mayor of Zurich, Hans Waldmann . At the age of 18 Edlibach married Ursula Röist, with whom he had 18 children. From 1473 to 1480 he was the bailiff (administrator) of the Einsiedeln possessions in Zurich. Edlibach was elected to the Constaffel as early as 1473, but did not take his seat until 1480. In 1487 he joined the Small Council of the City of Zurich and was given the office of sack master . After the fall of his stepfather Hans Waldmann in 1489, Edlibach had to resign from his offices. Nevertheless, he was already a member of the Small Council from 1493 to 1499 and later from 1515 to 1524. In 1488 he went to Bülach as senior bailiff , from 1494 to 1498 as bailiff to Grüningen and in 1505 to Greifensee for two years . He was a Catholic, and as an opponent of the Reformation , which was introduced during his lifetime in Zurich under Ulrich Zwingli , he resigned from his offices at his own request in 1524.

Services

In his main work, the Zürcher Chronik or Zürcher- und Schweizerchronik (1485/86), Edlibach documented the history of the Confederation shortly before the beginning of the Old Zurich War (from 1431) to the Reformation (1530) from the perspective of the City of Zurich. His chronicle is colored personally and contains not only pictorial representations of current events from his own hand, but also family descriptions. His presentation is " popularly realistic in sometimes clumsy, otherwise easily understandable language ". His work is said to be based in part on the draft of Diebold Schilling's picture chronicle in 1485/86 and was continued by Edlibach until 1517 and again until 1530. Towards the end, the records become increasingly sparse and are worded more concisely.

Edlibach wrote a Rotwelsch glossary ( fickabel des rotwelschtz ) around 1490 , one of the most extensive and oldest that has been preserved.

His book of arms , which was created around 1489–1493, is known and is often cited in questions of the history of coats of arms . The Zurich Chronicle is kept in the Zurich Central Library, the coat of arms was repurchased in 1932 by the Antiquarian Society in Zurich from the Fürstlich Fürstenbergische Hofbibliothek and is kept in the State Archives of the Canton of Zurich (cod.W 3 AG 21, formerly Bibl. Fürstenberg, ms. 98 , foll. 144-156).

His other works include the records of the Waldmann trade ( Waldmannscher Auflauf ) from 1489 and the Reformation in the years 1520 to 1527.

Picture gallery

  • Old Zurich War : Siege of Zurich 1444 (mirror image)

  • Old Zurich War: The Confederates before Zurich. Drawing by Gerold Edlibach (around 1488)

  • Siege of Greifensee 1444 (Zurich Chronicle)

  • Coats of arms of Zurich communities in Edlibach's Zurich Chronicle

  • Zollikon coat of arms (detail enlargement)

  • Oldest representation of Dübelstein Castle (heraldic book)

Works

  • Zürcher Chronik , Zurich 1485–1486 with additions up to 1530. Edition by Johann Martin Usteri Google
  • Zurich Book of Arms
  • Red word glossary
  • Gerold Edlibach: Da beschachend vil big endrungen: Gerold Edlibach's notes on the Zurich Reformation 1520–1526 , ed. and commented by Peter Jezler in: Bilderstreit, Kulturwandel in Zwingli's Reformation / Ed. Hans-Dietrich Altendorf, Peter Jezler. - Theological Verlag, Zurich 1984, ISBN 3-290-11555-0 , pp. 41–74 (based on the autograph in the Zurich Central Library, manuscript department, Ms. L 104)

literature

Web links

Commons : Gerold Edlibach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Gerold Edlibach in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The small encyclopedia , Encyclios-Verlag, Zurich, 1950, volume 1, page 402
  2. ↑ a b c d Wolfgang Stammler et al. : The German literature of the Middle Ages: author's lexicon . Walter de Gruyter (Ed.), 1978. ISBN 3-11-007699-3
  3. ^ KA Barack, The manuscripts of the Fürstlich-Fürstenbergischer Hofbibliothek zu Donaueschingen , 1865, 94f. “Gerold Edlibach's coat of arms book, compiled by himself around 1493” Here after in this book there was a number of herren's coat of arms painted “Quite roughly painted, but remarkable for its age. On the inside of the front cover are various architectural, mostly colored pen drawings, e.g. B. the castles Greifenberg [sic, for Greifensee?], Wetzikon, Kiburg, etc. and on the front sheet the painted coat of arms of Gerold Edlibach with the heading: Gerold Edlibach is dis buoch and underneath a woodcut, the legend of St. Introducing Felix and Regula, glued on. Finally, on the last two pages there are various pen drawings, including a banquet with banners, and above it in 1476 by Brunner de Zofingen . "
personal data
SURNAME Edlibach, Gerold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss chronicler and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1454
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1530
Place of death Zurich