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Valerius Anshelm (
1475 –
1546/
1547), born as Valerius
Rüd (or
Ryd), was a
Swiss chronicler working in
Berne.
Anshelm was born in
Rottweil, a city in
Swabia that was allied with the
Old Swiss Confederacy. His grandfather had fought on the side of the
Eidgenossen in the
Burgundy Wars. After studies in
Kraków (
1493–
95) and
Tübingen (until
1499) he spent some time as a travelling
scholar (in
1501, he was in
Lyon). He then settled in
Berne, where he was appointed on
August 22,
1505 the
headmaster of the Latin school. In
1508, he became the city physician.
As a sympathizer of the
Reformation, he corresponded with reformers such as
Zwingli and
Vadian. A critical remark of his wife on the
veneration of
Mary earned him a reprimand by the city council and a substantial pay cut in
1523, and as a consequence the family moved to Rottweil two years later. However, there he got involved in the conflicts between
Catholics and
Protestants, too, and even spent some time in jail. When the Protestants were banned from Rottweil in
1529, he more than gladly followed a call of Berne (which had become Protestant in
1528) to serve as the city's chronicler. From
1535 to
1537 he again served also as the city physician. He died between
August 1, 1546 and
February 21, 1547; the exact date is unknown.
Anshelm's appointment as chronicler was based on his having written a Latin chronicle of world history already during his first stay in Berne. Written in
1510, it wasn't printed until
1540, but Anshelm had distributed handwritten copies before. His main opus, however, was the
Berner Chronik, a history of the city of Berne on which he worked in his position as city chronicler until his death. After a brief introduction to the early history, it covered especially the time from the Burgundy Wars until 1536, although only fragments of the period of 1526 to 1536 survived. It remained buried in the municipal archives of Berne and was thus not widely known until the
17th century, when
Michael Stettler was commissioned to continue Anshelm's work. Stettler's own
Schweizerchronik, a history of Switzerland that was based on Anshelm's work, appeared first in
1626.
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