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Thietmar of Merseburg

975 - 1018

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Thietmar (also Dietmar or Dithmar; 25 July 975 – 1 December 1018), Prince-Bishop of Merseburg from 1009 until his death in 1018, was an important chronicler recording the reigns of German kings and Holy Roman Emperors of the Ottonian (Saxon) dynasty. Two of Thietmar's great-grandfathers, both referred to as Liuthar, were the Saxon nobles Lothar II, Count of Stade, and Lothar I, Count of Walbeck. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thietmar of Merseburg has received more than 105,805 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Thietmar of Merseburg is the 837th most popular writer (up from 929th in 2019), the 797th most popular biography from Germany (up from 905th in 2019) and the 48th most popular German Writer.

Thietmar of Merseburg is most famous for his chronicle of the Ottonian dynasty, which he wrote in the years 1012-1018. The chronicle is a history of the Germanic people from the death of Otto the Great in 973 to the death of Henry II in 1024.

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Notable Works

Chronicon
1985
Ottonian Germany
Biography & Autobiography
Translated in its entirety here for the first time, The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg has long been recognised as one of the most important sources for the history of the tenth and early eleventh centuries, especially for the history of the Ottonian Empire.
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Thietmari Merseburgensis episcopi Chronicon, post editionem Ioh. M. Lappenbergii recognovit Fridericus Kurze
1889

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Thietmar of Merseburg ranks 837 out of 7,302. Before him are Zhang Sanfeng, John Bunyan, Gerard of Cremona, Bacchylides, Adunis, and Dubravka Ugrešić. After him are Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz, Tibor Sekelj, Ingeborg Bachmann, Miroslav Krleža, Julian Barnes, and Vittoria Colonna.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 975, Thietmar of Merseburg ranks 3. Before him are Stephen I of Hungary, and Pope John XIX. After him is Hisham III of Córdoba. Among people deceased in 1018, Thietmar of Merseburg ranks 2. Before him is Harald II of Denmark. After him are Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria, Antipope Gregory VI, Ad-Darazi, Abd al-Rahman IV, Henry I, Margrave of Austria, Ali ibn Hammud al-Nasir, and William II, Count of Provence.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Thietmar of Merseburg ranks 797 out of 7,253. Before him are Joseph Wirth (1879), Horst Ludwig Störmer (1949), Johann Christoph Adelung (1732), Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck (1870), Eduard Dietl (1890), and Johannes Peter Müller (1801). After him are Volker Schlöndorff (1939), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925), Jürgen Prochnow (1941), Max Schmeling (1905), Hans-Valentin Hube (1890), and Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1629).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Thietmar of Merseburg ranks 48. Before him are Ulrich von Hutten (1488), Wilhelm Hauff (1802), Marie d'Agoult (1805), Karl Harrer (1890), Theodor Fontane (1819), and Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724). After him are Frank Wedekind (1864), Peter Weiss (1916), Bernhard Schlink (1944), Hans Fallada (1893), Stefan George (1868), and Achim von Arnim (1781).

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