Hartmann Schedel
{{short description|German historian, cartographer, physician and humanist (1440–1514)}}
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Hartmann Schedel (13 February 1440 – 28 November 1514) was a German historian, physician, humanist, and one of the first cartographers to use the printing press. He was born and died in Nuremberg. Matheolus Perusinus served as his tutor.
Schedel is best known for his writing the text for the Nuremberg Chronicle, known as Schedelsche Weltchronik (English: Schedel's World Chronicle), published in 1493 in Nuremberg. It was commissioned by Sebald Schreyer (1446–1520) and Sebastian Kammermeister (1446–1503).Hartmann Schedule, Weltchronik, Kolorierte Gesamtausgabe von 1493, Einleitung und cementer Stephen Füssel, Weltbild Verlag Maps in the Chronicle were the first ever illustrations of many cities and countries.
With the invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg in 1447, it became feasible to print books and maps for a larger customer basis. Because they had to be handwritten, books had previously been rare and very expensive.
Schedel was also a notable collector of books, art and old master prints. An album he had bound in 1504, which once contained five engravings by Jacopo de' Barbari, provides important evidence for dating de' Barbari's work.
Gallery
File:Nuernberg schedel.JPG|Nuremberg
File:Nuremberg chronicles - CRACOVIA.png|Kraków
File:Nuremberg chronicles - BRESSLA.png|Breslau (Wrocław)
File:Praha1493.jpg|Prague
File:Hans Boehm Pfeifer von Niklashausen Schedelsche Weltchronik.JPG|Hans Böhm, the "Pauker von Niklashausen"
File:Schedel judenfeindlichkeit.jpg|Blood libel: the supposed killing of a Christian boy at the hands of Jews in Trient in 1475. Simon of Trent
File:Schedel judenfeindlichkeit2.jpg|Burning of Jews for the supposed desecration of sacramental wafers in Deggendorf, Bavaria in 1492
File:Schedel konstantinopel.jpg|Constantinople in 1493
File:Hartmann-schedel-hierosolima-1493 2-BW-1147x965.jpg|Jerusalem
File:Hartmann-schedel DESTRVCCIO-IHEROSOLIME 1493 1-1460x750.jpg|The destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans
File:Nuremberg chronicles f 105r 1.png|Death of Seneca
File:Aesopnurembergchronicle.jpg| Aesop
File:Nuremberg Chronicle World Map 1493 Cornell CUL PJM 1002 02.jpg|Uncolored Nuremberg Chronicle World Map (1493).
File:Colored woodcut town view of Florence.jpg|View of Florence by Hartmann Schedel, Printed in Nuremberg by Anton Koberger in 1493.
Editions
- Hartmann Schedel: Registrum huius operis libri cronicarum cu [cum] figuris et imagibus [imaginibus] ab inicio mudi [mundi]. [Nachdruck der Ausgabe Nürnberg, Koberger, 1493]. Ostfildern: Quantum Books, [2002?]. - CCXCIX, [51] S., {{ISBN|3-935293-04-6}}
- Hartmann Schedel: Register des Buchs der Croniken und geschichten mit figuren und pildnussen von anbeginn der welt bis auf dise unnsere Zeit. [Durch Georgium Alten ... in diss Teutsch gebracht]. Reprint [der Ausg.] Nürnberg, Koberger, 1493, 1. Wiederdruck. München: Reprint-Verlag Kölbl, 1991. - [9], CCLXXXVI Bl., IDN: 947020551
- Hartmann Schedel: Weltchronik. Nachdruck [der] kolorierten Gesamtausgabe von 1493. Einleitung und Kommentar von Stephan Füssel. Augsburg: Weltbild, 2004. - 680 S., {{ISBN|3-8289-0803-9}}
- Stephan Füssel (Hg.): Schedel'sche Weltchronik. Taschen Verlag, Köln 2001. {{ISBN|3-8228-5725-4}}
- [http://www.obrasraras.usp.br/ Digitalisat der lateinischen Ausgabe] (mit brasil-portugiesischer Bedien-Oberfläche)
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080922034156/http://mdz1.bib-bvb.de/~mdz/kurzauswahl.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmdz1.bib-bvb.de%2Fcocoon%2Fbsbink%2FExemplar_S-199%2C1.html Digitalisat der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20130321014036/http://www.beloit.edu/nuremberg/inside/contents/index.htm Digitalisat der Beloit copy] (Morse Library, Beloit College, Beloit, WI 53511, United States)
- [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b2200022x Holzschnitte aus einem der Exemplare der Bibliothèque nationale de France]
Notes
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Sources
- Elisabeth Rücker: Hartmann Schedels Weltchronik, das größte Buchunternehmen der Dürerzeit. Verlag Prestel, München 1988. {{ISBN|3-7913-0876-9}}
- Stephan Füssel (Hrsg.): 500 Jahre Schedelsche Weltchronik. Carl, Nürnberg 1994. {{ISBN|3-418-00372-9}}
- Peter Zahn: Hartmann Schedels Weltchronik. Bilanz der jüngeren Forschung. In: Bibliotheksforum Bayern 24 (1996), 230–248
- Christoph Reske: Die Produktion der Schedelschen Weltchronik in Nürnberg. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2000. {{ISBN|3-447-04296-6}}
- Michael Zellmann-Rohrer, Constantine Hadavas, Selim S. Nahas: Liber Chronicarum Translation Volume 1. Boston. {{ISBN|978-0-9831407-2-6}}
External links
- {{commonsinline|Hartmann Schedel}}
- {{commonsinline|Schedelsche Weltchronik}}
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- [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rosenwald.0166.1 Liber chronicarum.] Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 23 Dec. 1493. From the [https://www.loc.gov/rr/rarebook/ Rare Book and Special Collections Division] at the Library of Congress
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Category:Writers from Nuremberg
Category:German Renaissance humanists