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Hartmann Schedel
Summary
Hartmann Schedel (13 February 1440 – 28 November 1514) was a German historian, physician, humanist, and one of the first cartographers to use the printing press. He was born and died in Nuremberg. Matheolus Perusinus served as his tutor.
Schedel is best known for his writing the text for the Nuremberg Chronicle, known as Schedelsche Weltchronik (English: Schedel's World Chronicle), published in 1493 in Nuremberg. It was commissioned by Sebald Schreyer (1446–1520) and Sebastian Kammermeister (1446–1503). Maps in the Chronicle were the first ever illustrations of many cities and countries.
With the invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg in 1447, it became feasible to print books and maps for a larger customer basis. Because they had to be handwritten, books had previously been rare and very expensive.
Schedel was also a notable collector of books, art and old master prints. An album he had bound in 1504, which once contained five engravings by Jacopo de' Barbari, provides important evidence for dating de' Barbari's work.
File:Nuernberg schedel.JPG|Nuremberg
File:Nuremberg chronicles - CRACOVIA.png|[[Kraków]]
File:Nuremberg chronicles - BRESSLA.png|[[Breslau]] (Wrocław)
File:Praha1493.jpg|[[Prague]]
File:Hans Boehm Pfeifer von Niklashausen Schedelsche Weltchronik.JPG|Hans Böhm, the "Pauker von Niklashausen"
File:Schedel judenfeindlichkeit.jpg|[[Blood libel]]: the supposed killing of a Christian boy at the hands of Jews in Trient in 1475. [[Simon of Trent]]
File:Schedel judenfeindlichkeit2.jpg|Burning of Jews for the supposed desecration of sacramental wafers in Deggendorf, Bavaria in 1492
File:Schedel konstantinopel.jpg|[[Constantinople]] in 1493
File:Hartmann-schedel-hierosolima-1493 2-BW-1147x965.jpg|Jerusalem
File:Hartmann-schedel DESTRVCCIO-IHEROSOLIME 1493 1-1460x750.jpg|The destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans
File:Nuremberg chronicles f 105r 1.png|[[Seneca the Younger|Death of Seneca]]
File:Aesopnurembergchronicle.jpg| [[Aesop]]
File:Nuremberg Chronicle World Map 1493 Cornell CUL PJM 1002 02.
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