Background
He was born and died in Nuremberg.
cartographer historian physician writer
He was born and died 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. lieutenant 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.
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" Barbari, provides important evidence for dating de" Barbari"s work.
Hartmann Schedel: Registrum huius operis libri cronicarum cu figuris et imagibus ab inicio mudi. Ostfildern: Quantum Books. - CCXCIX, South.,
Hartmann Schedel: Register des Buchs der Croniken und geschichten mit figuren und pildnussen von anbeginn der welt bis auf dise unnsere Zeit.
. Reprint Nürnberg, Koberger, 1493, 1.
Wiederdruck. München: Reprint-Verlag Kölbl, 1991. -, CCLXXXVI Bl., Institut industriel du Nord: 947020551
Hartmann Schedel: Weltchronik.
Nachdruck kolorierten Gesamtausgabe von 1493.
Einleitung und Kommentar von Stephan Füssel. Augsburg: Weltbild, 2004. - 680 South.,
Stephan Füssel (Hg): Schedel"sche Weltchronik.
Taschen Verlag, Köln 2001.
Digitalisat der lateinischen Ausgabe (mit brasil-portugiesischer Bedien-Oberfläche)
Digitalisat der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek
Digitalisat der Beloit copy (Morse Library, Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin 53511, United States)
Holzschnitte aus einem der Exemplare der Bibliothèque nationale de France.