Hartmann Schedel
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.
Hartmann Schedel
Hartmann Schedel · Hartmann Schedel: Weltchronik. Kolorierte Gesamtausgabe von 1493. Einleitung und Kommentar von S. Füssel. Köln u.a. 2001, S. 2. · Public domain
- Born
- 1440.
- Died
- 1514.
- Nationality
- Nuremberg.
- Occupation
- cartographer, historian, physician, graphic artist, xylographer, collector and humanist.
- Movements
- German Renaissance and humanism.
- Known for
- Nuremberg Chronicle, Liber genealogiae et rerum familiarum, Opus de antiquitatibus cum epitaphiis and Liederbuch.
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1440
Hartmann Schedel born at Nuremberg.
1493
Liber chronicarum / [Hartmann Schedel]., dated 1493, held by Wellcome Collection.
1514
Hartmann Schedel died at Nuremberg.
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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). Maps in the Chronicle were the first ever illustrations of many cities and countries. 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.
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, 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. -, 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 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) Holzschnitte aus einem der Exemplare der Bibliothèque nationale de France
De hystorijs etatum mundi (1493), Hartmann Schedel. BNEE, Quito.
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A very fine example of the first edition of this incunable world map from the the 'Nuremberg Chronicle', published a matter of months after Columbus' return to Spain after his first voyage to the New World. Appropriately for a history of the world, it takes a retrospective view, with the cartography that of Ptolemy, with a land-locked Indian Ocean with the island of Taprobana, but given a biblical
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- 1.Hartmann Schedule, Weltchronik, Kolorierte Gesamtausgabe von 1493, Einleitung und cementer Stephen Füssel, Weltbild Verlag
Bibliography printed in the source article · 5
- Elisabeth Rücker: Hartmann Schedels Weltchronik, das größte Buchunternehmen der Dürerzeit. Verlag Prestel, München 1988.
- Stephan Füssel (Hrsg.): 500 Jahre Schedelsche Weltchronik. Carl, Nürnberg 1994.
- 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.
- Michael Zellmann-Rohrer, Constantine Hadavas, Selim S. Nahas: Liber Chronicarum Translation Volume 1. Boston.
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