Editing Hans Baldung (section)

==Life==

===Early life, c. 1484–1500===
[[File:Kw11 0012025 20190129 001 Baldung Jugendliches Selbstbildnis.jpg|thumb|Self-portrait, c. 1502]]
Hans was born in [[Schwäbisch Gmünd]] (formerly Gmünd in Germany), a [[Free imperial city|small free city]] of the Empire, part of the [[Ostwürttemberg|East Württemberg]] region in former Swabia, Germany, in the year 1484 or 1485.{{sfn|Brady|1975|p=298}} Baldung was the son of Johann Baldung, a university-educated jurist, who held the office of legal adviser to the bishop of Strasbourg (Albert of Bavaria) from 1492, and Margarethe Herlin, daughter of Arbogast Herlin. His uncle, Hieronymus Baldung, was a doctor in medicine, with a son, Pius Hieronymus, Hans' cousin, who taught law at [[Freiburg im Breisgau|Freiburg]] and became chancellor of Tyrol in 1527.{{sfn|Brady|1975|p=304}}

Hans was not propertyless, but with unknown occupation.{{sfn|Brady|1975|p=304}} He was the first male in his family not to attend university, but was one of the first German artists to come from an academic family.{{sfn|Brady|1975|pp=303-304}}