Hartmann Schedel

Timeline

1. 1456–1466Leipzig · LeipzigHe entered the University of Leipzig in 1456, took the bachelor's in 1457 and the MA in 1460; he first studied law, then was drawn by Peter Luder to the humanities and took minor orders. In 1463, at the urging of his cousin Hermann Schedel, city physician of Augsburg, he switched to medicine, attended lectures in Padua for three years, observed a human dissection in March 1465, and studied elementary Greek with Demetrius Chalcondyles, receiving his MD on 17 April 1466.
2. 1466–1492Nuremberg · NurembergHe returned to Nuremberg to practice in autumn 1466, traveled the Rhine, Flanders, and Brabant in 1468, and witnessed the wedding of Charles the Bold and Margaret of York at Bruges. He became city physician of Nördlingen in 1470, then of Amberg in 1477, was appointed city physician of Nuremberg in November 1481, and entered the Great Council the following year. He copied inscriptions, music, and books extensively, becoming the central collector of Nuremberg's humanist circle.
3. 1493–1514Nuremberg · NurembergIn July 1493 the Latin Liber chronicarum appeared in Nuremberg, financed by Sebald Schreier and Sebastian Kammermeister and printed by Anton Koberger; a German translation by Georg Alt followed in December. About 1,900 woodcuts came from the workshop of Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, including views and world maps first printed for many cities. Schedel used Jacobus Philippus de Bergamo's Supplementum chronicarum as a framework, adding excerpts from medieval and humanist historians, and continued collecting and copying until his death in 1514.