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Sigismund Meisterlin (around 1435 - after 1497) was a monk in St. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg and came into contact with humanism for the first time while studying at Italian universities. In 1456 he was able to dedicate his "Augsburg Chronicle" to his patron Sigmund Gossembrot and thus present the first German humanistic history, which is based to some extent on source criticism. He was concerned with a revision of the rhyming chronicle of Küechlin (Clm 61), which claimed, among other things, that Augsburg had been founded by Teutons descended from Trojans and by Swabians; instead of this fiction he wanted to set the truth straight and prove that Augsburg had been founded long before the Trojan refugees by native Vindelikers. In addition to the selection of sources, the large volume of descriptions of the state and its people is new for Meisterlin. His chronicle first appeared in Latin in 1456, then in German in 1457. It was subsequently substantially illustrated, edited and expanded for the other monastic-urban historiography in Augsburg: by Hektor Mülich in 1457, who later used it as a source for his edition (Augsburg manuscript), by Mülich's brother Georg with 13 coloured pen drawings (Stuttgart manuscript) and by Konrad Bollstatter with 21 coloured pen drawings in this Munich manuscript from the years 1479 to 1481. Meisterlin's "Augsburger Chronik" was first printed in 1483. Datum: 2016
Author
Peter Czoik