Peter Hafftiz (also ''Haftiz''; ''Petrus Haftitius, Hafftitius'', c. 1525 – c. 1601) was a
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educator and historiographer.
From 1550 he was teacher at the schools of
St. Nicolai and
St. Marien in
Berlin
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, from 1560 as rector.
He received Berlin citizenship in 1564. From 1577 to 1580 he was rector in the public school of
Cölln
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.
His major work is a chronicle of the
Margraviate of Brandenburg
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, probably begun after 1593, which is in part based on the earlier chronicles of
Engelbert Wusterwitz and
Andreas Angelus. The chronicle is extant in a number of manuscripts in his hand, under various titles, among others ''Microchronicon Marchium'', and in a number of later manuscript copies.
Minor works by Hafftiz include ''De vita et obitu Joachimi II. S. R. I. archicamerarii
..ac d. Johannis fratris march. Br.'' (1571), ''Liber de extremo iudicio'' (1576), ''Ecloga in obitum Augusti el. Saxoniae'' (1586), ''Tractat vom Adel u. dessen Ursprung'' (1587 manuscript).
Hafftiz' ''Microchronicon Marchium'' was edited in 1862, from a manuscript beginning with the year 1411, in
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's ''Codex Diplomaticus Brandenburgensis'' (vol. IV.1
pp. 46€“168).
References
Sources
*Schultze, Johannes, "Hafftiz, Peter" in: ''Neue Deutsche Biographie'' 7 (1966), 463f.
deutsche-biographie.de
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*Friedrich Holtze, 'Die Berolinensien des Peter Hafftiz', ''Schriften des Vereins für die Geschichte Berlins'' 31, Berlin, 1894.
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1520s births
1600s deaths
German schoolteachers
German chroniclers
Writers from Berlin
People from the Margraviate of Brandenburg
History of Brandenburg
16th-century Latin-language writers
16th-century German writers
16th-century German male writers
16th-century German historians