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THIETMAR (DIETMAR or DITHMAR) OF MERSEBURG (975-1018)

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 850 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: THE-TOO
THIETMAR (DIETMAR or DITHMAR) OF MERSEBURG (975-1018) , German chronicler, was a son of Siegfried, count of Walbeck, and was related to the family of the emperor Otto the
Great
 . Born on the 25th of July 975 he was educated at Quedlinburg and at Magdeburg and became provost of Walbeck in 1002 and bishop of Merseburg seven years later. He took some part in the political events of the time; in 994 he was a
hostage
  in the hands of the Northmen, and he was not unfamiliar with the actualities of war. He died on the 1st of December 1or8.
Thietmar wrote a Chronicon in eight books, which deals with the period between 908 and Ioi8. For the earlier part he used Widukind's Res gestae Saxonicae, the Annales Quedlinburgenses and other sources; the latter part is the result of personal know-ledge. It is rough in form and the author shows no power of discriminating between important and unimportant events; yet the chronicle is an excellent authority for the history of Saxony during the reigns of the emperors Otto III. and
Henry
  II. No kind of information is excluded, but the fullest details refer to the bishopric of Merseburg and to the wars against the Wends and the Poles. The
original
  manuscript of the
work
  is preserved at Dresden and has been published in facsimile by L. Schmidt (Dresden, 1905). It has been edited by J. M. Lappenberg in Band III. of the
Monumenta Germaniae historica, Scriptores; and by F. Kurze (Han-over, 1889) ; and has been translated into German by J. Laurent (new ed. revised by W. Wattenbach,
Leipzig
 , 1892). See F. Kurze, Bischof Thietmar von Merseburg and seine Chronik (
Halle
 , 1890) ; and W. Wattenbach, Deutschlands Geschichtsguellen, Band II. (Berlin, 1904).


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