Wigand of Marburg
Template:Short description Wigand of Marburg (Template:Langx)[2] was a German herald of the Teutonic Knights in Prussia and one of the notable chroniclers of the Middle Ages.
Wigand expanded upon the earlier work of Nikolaus von Jeroschin. His Template:Ill is one of the principal sources of information used for the history of the Prussian lands and parts of the adjoining Grand Duchy of Lithuania, covering the period between 1293 and 1394.[3] Originally written in Middle High German rhymed prose, the work combined actual accounts with legends, folk tales, and myths. Out of an estimated length of 17,000 lines, only about 500 have survived to the present day.[3] However, in 1464, the Polish chronicler Jan Długosz, speaking little German, asked Thorn clergyman Template:Ill to translate Wigand's chronicle into Latin, and Gesselen's translation has survived almost intact.[3][4] Gesselen titled his translation New Prussian Chronicle (Template:Langx) to distinguish it from Jeroschin's earlier work, some of which he also translated. Gesselen did not take credit for his translation, but was identified as the author in 1895 by German historian Template:Ill.[5]
Wigand's chronicle is sometimes referred to in German sources as "Wigand of Marburg's rhyming chronicle" (Template:Langx, since it is a medieval chronicle written in rhyming prose in a vernacular language (the definition of a rhyming chronicle). The chronicle is referred to in a few German sources as "[the] 'chronicle of Thorn'/'Thorn chronicle' from 1293 to 1394",[6][7][8] probably because Gesselen's Latin translation was found in Thorn in 1821.[9]
Notes and references
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External links
- Nine fragments of Wigand's chronicle, and Chronica nova Prutenica (Gesselen's Latin translation) with commentary, published by Theodor Hirsch, et al. in Scriptores rerum Prussicarum, volume 2 (1863) ([[[:Template:Google Books URL]] monochrome scan on Google Books])
- Two additional fragments of Wigand's chronicle, published by Theodor Hirsch, et al. in Scriptores rerum Prussicarum, volume 4 (1870) ([[[:Template:Google Books URL]] monochrome scan on Google Books])
- Information about the edition of Chronica nova Prutenica in Scriptores rerum Prussicarum, volume 2
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- 14th-century German historians
- Chronicles about Lithuania
- Chroniclers from the Holy Roman Empire
- People from Marburg
- Teutonic Knights
- People from the State of the Teutonic Order
- Year of birth unknown
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- German male non-fiction writers
- 14th-century writers in Latin