Froben Christoph von Zimmern

Albrecht Classen (University of Arizona)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Dates

Born 19 Feb 1519
Died 27 Nov 1566
Activity 1540-1566

Places

Born in Germany
Active in Germany

Activities

Primary

Historian / Chronicler

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Zimmern's Works

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In the case of late medieval and early modern chroniclers, it has been rather standard to approach them and their work purely from a historical perspective, considering them primarily as ‘ego-documents’ or simply sober reports about individuals, dynasties, peoples, kingdoms, or the papacy. However, chronicles like the one composed by Froben Christoph von Zimmern offer more opportunities for an interdisciplinary approach since they represent much more complex narratives than we might assume. Already the world chronicle by the thirteenth-century Austrian Jans the Enikel was mixed with literary accounts, although the narrator does not prepare us for the switch away from historiographical to fictional discourse and back again. We notice a similar phenomenon in Froben’s case, which…

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Citation: Classen, Albrecht. "Froben Christoph von Zimmern". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 29 July 2024 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=15266, accessed 31 October 2024.]