Hartmann Schedel

Opening from the Nuremberg Chronicle, showing Erfurt

1493 Woodcut of the City of Rhodes, by Hartmann Schedel

Hartmann Schedel (13 February 1440 – 28 November 1514), was a German physician, humanist, historian, and one of the first cartographers to use the printing press. He was born 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 probably commissioned by Anton Koberger. 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 were previously 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' Barberi, provides important evidence for dating de' Barbari's work.

Gallery

Nuremberg	Cracovia	Breslau	Prague
Hans Böhm, the "Pauker von Niklashausen"	Anti-Semitic image	Burning Jews	Constantinople in 1493
Jerusalem	The storming of Jerusalem	Death of Seneca	Aesop

Editions

German Wikisource has original text related to this article: Schedel’sche Weltchronik

• 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)
• Digitalisat der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek
• Digitalisat der Beloit copy (Morse Library, Beloit College, Beloit, WI 53511, United States) - http://www.beloit.edu/nuremberg/inside/contents/index.htm
• Holzschnitte aus einem der Exemplare der Bibliothèque nationale de France - http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b2200022x

Literature

• 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

See also

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• Patriziat Nürnberg

External links

• Hartmann Schedel in the German National Library catalogue (German)
• Hartmann Schedel. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). (German)
• Wilhelm Wattenbach: Hartmann Schedel. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, S. 661 f. (German)
•  "Hartmann Schedel". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Hartmann_Schedel.