!!!Mennel Manlius, Jakob

b. Bregenz (Vorarlberg), around 1460, 
d. Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany), before March 6, 1526, legal 
scholar, historian. Taught from 1493 in Freiburg, became town clerk 
there in 1496. From 1498 contacts with  Maximilian I, became his 
court historiographer. Supported the theory that the Habsburgs were 
descended from the Trojans and were related to all Christian royal 
families.

!Works
Cronica Habsburgensis nuper Rigmatice edita, 1507; Fuerstl. 
Chronik, genannt Kayser Maximilians Geburtsspiegel (Manuscript of 
1512-1517, Codices in the Austrian National Library).

!Literature
NDB.



%%language
[Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Mennel_Manlius,_Jakob|class='wikipage austrian']
%%

[{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}]
[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]