THIETMAR OF MERSEBURG. - Born on 25 July 975 to Siegfried, count of Walbeck, died at Merseburg on 1 December 1018.
He entered the monastery of Quedlinburg at a very young age and began his studies there; he then moved to that of Magdeburg. In 1002 he received the title of prior of the monastery founded by his grandfather at Walbeck; in 1004 he was ordained a priest. His family's connections with the royal Court facilitated his election as bishop of Merseburg (1009), where he resided until his death.
From 1012 to 1015 he wrote a Chronicon in 9 books, which from 1016 to 1018 he revised and expanded. His work follows, as sources, the Annales of Hildesheim and of Quedlinburg; but it owes its importance to Thietmar's personal contribution, because he composed it as a kind of diary of what happened at the royal Court, which he frequented; moreover, he was also able to obtain information from the noble families related and allied to his own. His chronicle therefore constitutes one of the important sources for the history of Germany.
Bibliography2 worksed.: the autograph of the Chronicon, in the library of Dresden, was reproduced in collotype, with a preface edited by L. Schmidt (2 vols., B
BIBL.: ed.: the autograph of the Chronicon, in the library of Dresden, was reproduced in collotype, with a preface edited by L. Schmidt (2 vols., Berlin 1905); for the printed edition, that of F. Kurze, in MGH, Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum, LIV, Berlin 1889, is to be preferred to that of PL 139. Studies: W. Wattenbach, Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter, I, Berlin 1893, pp. 355-60 (with important bibliography).
Mollat, Guglielmo. “Tietmaro di Merseburgo.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII, coll. 95–96. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1954. https://azioneromana.com/article/tietmaro-di-merseburgo.
MLA
Mollat, Guglielmo. “Tietmaro di Merseburgo.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1954, coll. 95–96. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/tietmaro-di-merseburgo.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec12_tietmaro_di_merseburgo,
author = {Mollat, Guglielmo},
title = {Tietmaro di Merseburgo},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {XII},
pages = {95--96},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1954},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/tietmaro-di-merseburgo}
}
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