Conrad Justinger

Konrad Just Inger ( * before 1370 probably in Rottweil, † 1438 in Zurich ) town clerk and chronicler of Bern.

Life

Just Inger probably originated in Rottweil and immigrated with his brother Werner later than 1390 to Bern. He was there in 1391, the Civil Rights and married after 1426 Anna Wirz, with which he moved to their hometown Zurich 1432.

The specified in the ADB activities Ingers Just as town clerk from 1384 to 1393 and from 1411 to 1416 is slightly modified according to recent sources see:

" Expressly J. [ Just Inger ] is referred to only in a document of 1400 as town clerk Berns, otherwise he emerged as a writer on ( 1406-07 as builders writer ) and notary. His signature appears in a number of Bernese firm books, so in Udelbuch of 1390, in the Statute Book of 1398 in Freedom Book of 1431 as well as a copy of the Habsburg Urbars after 1415th "

Works

With the subsequent work " Anonymous City Chronicle " or " Small Bernese Chronicle " Konrad Just Inger recommended to the Bernese council as a chronicler of the order for the Bernese Chronicle, for which he is known today:

1420, the City Council, excited by the long-standing Schultheissen Rudolf Hofmeister, that the stat Bern past and big things, read namely treflich profitable and good for knowing and listening sint bring acapulco and acapulco for the truth ( should ) decided usser may know the old büchren and chronicles, so bewisen the truth, and of underwisung old gelobsamer lüten, mod daz si and her nachkomen the vorgenant ir stat Berne harkomen and occasion.

Just Inger, who had recently resigned from his office, received the relevant order. He used to draw up his work claims to be " the letters, as in the stat boxes ligent ", ie the records of the municipal archive. Text comparisons revealed that he also called the Chronica de Berno, so the entries in the year book of the Bern Cathedral from the beginning of the 14th century, and the small narratio Conflictus apud Laupen hinzuzog about the Battle of Laupen in 1339, which is also still in the 14th century had been written.

Just Ingers work, which according to order extended to the year 1420 and perhaps merely to 1417, is partially unreliable in the chronological data, however, is characterized by lively narrative and a simple yet powerful language. Especially valuable is the record of some historical folk songs.

Editions

• Stierlin E. (ed.): Conrad Feininger Just Bernese Chronicle:. Beginning of the city of Bern to the year 1421 Bern 1819.
• G. Studer ( ed. ): The Bernese Chronicle of Conrad Just Inger. Bern in 1871.