Nikolaus von Jeroschin

Nikolaus von Jeroschin, a priest of the Teutonic Order (see Deutscher Orden), wrote a life of St Adalbert and a verse chronicle of the Order from its beginnings to 1330. The life of St Adalbert, Bishop of Prague, who was killed in 991 in an attempt to convert the heathen in Prussia, is a translation of a Latin Vita. Die Kronike von Pruzinlant was written between 1330 and 1340 and adapts a Latin chronicle by another member of the Order, Peter von Dusberg (probably Duisburg), written in 1326 (Chronica terre Prussie). It is a substantial work of nearly 28, 000 lines, which, though ill-constructed and often repetitive, reveals poetic and metrical skill.