Caspar Schütz (c. 1540 – 16 September 1594) was a German

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

. Schütz was born in

Eisleben Eisleben is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is famous as both the hometown of the influential theologian Martin Luther and the place where he died; hence, its official name is Lutherstadt Eisleben. First mentioned in the late 10th century ...

. As professor of poetry at the

University of Königsberg The University of Königsberg () was the university of Königsberg in Duchy of Prussia, which was a fief of Poland. It was founded in 1544 as the world's second Protestant Reformation, Protestant academy (after the University of Marburg) by Duke A ...

from 1562 to 1565, he developed interest in the history of

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. He then became the historian of the city of Danzig (Gdansk) and collected old writings and records. His main work, published in 1592 in

Zerbst Zerbst () is a List of cities and towns in Germany, town in the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Until an administrative reform in 2007, Zerbst was the capital of the former Anhalt-Zerbst district. Geography Zerbst is sit ...

, was the Historia Rerum Prussicarum or "wahrhafte Beschreibung der Lande Preussen in 10 Büchern vom Anfange bis auf das Jahr 1525".Max Pollux Toeppen, Petrus, Kaspar Schütz, Max Töppen: ''Geschichte der preussischen Historiographie''

He died in Danzig. Later, others resumed the work he began, covering also later periods, like in the 1720s, Gottfried Lengnich.

References

*James B Collins, Karen L Taylor: ''Early Modern Europe Issues and Interpretations'', 2006

*''Caspari Schützii Rerum Prussicarum historia ex codice manu auctoris scripto edita'

*ostdeutsche-biographie.d

*Heinz Lingenberg

*Heribert Maria Nobis et al.: '' Nicolaus Copernicus Gesamtausgabe''

1540s births 1594 deaths Emigrants from the Holy Roman Empire 16th-century German historians 16th-century Prussian people Writers from Gdańsk German male non-fiction writers {{Germany-historian-stub