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The Augsburg City Chronicle reached its heyday in the 15th century, hardly any other city in the Old Empire produced so many and such varied historiographical representations in such a short time, covering the entire history of Augsburg and even secular history, drawing on a wide variety of sources. One of these chronicles comes from the pen of the Augsburg monk Sigismund Meisterlin (around 1435 to after 1497), the "Chronographia Augustanae urbis". His chronicle (Latin 1456, German 1457) was inspired by the humanist Sigmund Gossembrot (1417-1493) and had a fundamental effect on the further writing of monastic and urban history. It was also important for the development of German prose. The "Chronographia Augustanae urbis" is regarded as the first German humanistic history to be based to some extent on source criticism. The founding and early history of Augsburg, as it was shaped by the Augsburg clergyman Küchlin around 1440 (cf. Clm 61), are subjected to review. Meisterlin's chronicle was first printed in 1483. It has been preserved in several manuscripts; this one dates from 1505 and was written by the Benedictine scribe Leonhard Wagner from Schwabmünchen (1454-1522). Datum: 2017
Author
Peter Czoik