!!!Johann von Viktring

Johann of Viktring, probably b. in Lorraine, around 1270, 
d. between July 30, 1345 and Oct. 31, 1347, Cistercian, from 1312 
Abbot of Viktring (Carinthia), 1330-1335 curate (secretary) to Duke 
Henry VI of Carinthia and the Tyrol, 1335-1342 at the Habsburg 
Court. Dedicated his major work "Liber certarum historiarum", which he 
started in 1340/41 and finished in 1343 (4 editions, the last one 
called "Anonymus Leobiensis") to Albrecht II. One "Chronicon 
Carinthiae" is missing and the "Cronica Romanorum" is only a draft.

!Literature
F. Schneider, in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica, 
Scriptorum, rer. Germ. 36, 2 vols., 1909/1910; U. Bassi, Studien 
zur Geschichtsschreibung J. v. V., 1997; NDB.


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