Worlds of Learning: The Library and World Chronicle of the Nuremberg Physician Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514)

TitleWorlds of Learning: The Library and World Chronicle of the Nuremberg Physician Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514)
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2016
Series EditorWagner, Bettina
Tertiary AuthorsWagner, Bettina, Booton, Diane
Number of Pages168 pp.
PublisherAllitera Verlag
CityMunich, Germany
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9783869067575
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Schedel was a German historian and physician. Examines his private library to shed light on his most well-known work, the World Chronicle published in 1493 in Nuremberg. Accompanies the exhibition "Welten des Wissens : die Bibliothek und Weltchronik des Nürnberger Arztes Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514)," held at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, November 19, 2014, to March 1, 2015.

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