Werner Schodoler (also Wernher Schodoler (1490 in Bremgarten, Aargau – 15 October 1541, in

Bremgarten, Aargau Bremgarten is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Aargau. It serves as seat of the district of Bremgarten. The medieval old town is listed as a heritage site of national significance. In 2013, Bremgarten was the first municipality in Europe t ...

) was a Swiss

chronicler A chronicle ( la, chronica, from Greek ''chroniká'', from , ''chrónos'' – "time") is a historical account of events arranged in chronological order, as in a timeline. Typically, equal weight is given for historically important events and lo ...

. He was the author of ''Swiss History'', the earliest of the

Swiss illustrated chronicles Several illustrated chronicles were created in the Old Swiss Confederacy in the 15th and 16th centuries. They were luxurious illuminated manuscripts produced for the urban elite of Bern and Lucerne, and their copious detailed illustrations allow a ...

Literature

*Walter Muschg and Eduard A. Gessler ''Die Schweizer Bilderchroniken des 15/16 Jahrhunderts'' Zurich, Atlantis Verlag, 1941.

External links

Eidgenössische Chronik des Werner Schodoler
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NZZ Archiv, 1951, Der Alte Zürichkrieg im Spiegel der Schodoler-Chronik
(PDF; 4,1 MB) Swiss chronicles 1490 births 1541 deaths People from Bremgarten District 16th-century Swiss historians People from Bremgarten, Aargau {{Switzerland-writer-stub