John of Winterthur

John of Winterthur, also called Vitoduranus, (* 1300 in Winterthur, † 1348 or 1349 probably in Lindau ) was a German Franciscan monk and medieval chronicler.

Life

John attended a school in Winterthur from 1309 and entered 1317 as a novice in the Minorit the smallest and oldest branch of the First Order of St. Francis, a. 1328 he was a monk in the Order monastery at Basle and Schaffhausen in 1335. In 1340 he settled in the convent in Lindau on Lake Constance and began with the work of his chronicle. The work begins with the pontificate of Pope Innocent III. in 1200 and extends to 1348, the reign of Charles IV the beginning The Chronicle was planned in two parts, of which only the second part is delivered. It is obtained as an autograph in the Central Library Zurich. From the first part of only one manuscript exists with a few lines. The untitulierte and wrote in Latin work describes, among other events in the southwest German towns and landscapes of northern Switzerland and Austria, the imperial history, the Morgarten war and the struggle of the Emperor Louis the papacy in Avignon. The chronicle of four early modern copies exist ( by the Zurich manuscript ), is a major source of cultural history from the time of the 14th century. The records end in 1348. In his Order of St. John was probably the Spirituals close, a group that stayed on a strict observance of the original Franciscan rule. John died in 1348 or 1349 during the great plague of Minoritenkloster of Lindau. Narrated have his name and the stations of his life only from the left by his own historical work.

Expenditure

  • Chronicon, ed Georg von Wyss, Zurich 1856, digitized version of the BSB Munich.
  • The Chronicle of the Friar Minor John of Winterthur, 5 volumes, Ziegler, Winterthur 1859-1866, digital copies of the BSB Munich: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5
  • The Chronicle 's John of Winterthur, translation by Bernhard Freuler, Ziegler, Winterthur 1866; Digitized at archive.org; Digitized version of the BSB Munich.
  • Baethgen Friedrich and Carl Brun (ed.): Scriptores rerum Germanicarum, Nova series 3: The Chronicle of John of Winterthur ( Chronica of John Vitodurani ) Berlin 1924 ( Monumenta Historica Germaniae, digitized ).
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