Editing Johann Stumpf (writer)

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[[File:Stumpf Portrait.jpg|thumb|Johannes Stumpf (c. 1536)]]
'''Johann Stumpf''' (23 April 1500 – c. 1578) was an early writer on the history and [[topography]] of [[Switzerland]] as well as a [[Theology|theologian]] and [[Cartography|cartographer]]. 

==Biography==
He was born at [[Bruchsal]] (near [[Karlsruhe]]), and was educated there and at [[Strasbourg]] and [[Heidelberg]]. In 1520 he became a [[clergy|cleric]] or [[chaplain]] in the order of the [[Knights Hospitaller]].  He was sent in 1521 to the [[preceptory]] of that order at [[Freiburg im Breisgau]], ordained a [[priest]] at [[Basel]], and in 1522 was placed in charge of the [[Bubikon Commandry|preceptory at Bubikon]] (north of [[Rapperswil (SG)]], in the [[cantons of Switzerland|canton]] of [[Zürich]]). However, Stumpf went over to the [[Protestants]], was present at the [[Bern Disputation]] (1528), and took part in the [[First war of Kappel|first Kappel War]] (1529).

[[File:stumpf swiss woodblock.jpg|thumb|The Swiss region around [[Zürich]].]]
In 1529 he married the first of his four wives, a daughter of [[Heinrich Brennwald]], who wrote a work (still in manuscript) on Swiss history, and stimulated his son-in-law to undertake historical studies. Stumpf made wide researches, with this object, for many years, and undertook also several journeys, of which that in 1544 to [[Engelberg]] and through the [[Valais]] seems to be the most important, perhaps because his original diary has been preserved to us. The fruit of his labours (completed at the end of 1546) was published in 1548 at Zürich in a huge folio of 934 pages (with many fine wood engravings, coats of arms, maps, &c.), under the title of ''Gemeiner loblicher Eydgnoschafft Stetten, Landen und Voelckeren Chronick wirdiger thaaten Beschreybung''. An extract from it was published in 1554, under the name of ''Schwytzer Chronika''. New and greatly enlarged editions of the original work were issued in 1586 and 1606.<ref>''Schweytzer Chronick: Das ist/ Beschreybunge Gemeiner loblicher Eydgnoschafft Stetten (etc.) an jetzo aber biß auf das gegenwirtige 1606. außgeführt'' Zürych : Wolff, 1606.</ref> 
The woodcuts are best in the first edition, and it remained till [[Johann Jakob Scheuchzer|Scheuchzer]]'s day (early 18th century) the chief authority on its subject.

[[File:Kolorierter Holzschnitt Stumpfsche Chronik 1548.jpg|thumb|Swiss nobleman by [[Heinrich Vogtherr]], Private Collection]]
When he converted to Protestantism, Stumpf had carried over with him most of his parishioners, whom he continued to care for, as the Protestant pastor at Bubikon, till 1543. He then became pastor of Stammheim (today [[Oberstammheim]] and [[Unterstammheim]]) until 1561, when he retired to Zürich (of which he had been made a burgher in 1548), where he lived in retirement till his death in 1576.

Stumpf also published a monograph (very remarkable for the date) about [[Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor]] (1556) and a set of laudatory verses ({{langx|de|Lobsprüche}}) about each of the thirteen Swiss cantons.

==Gallery==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:Stumpf chronik.jpg|The [[battle of Morat]], part of an engraving from the ''Stumpf Chronik''
Image:Stumpf-Chronik-Zug.png|The Swiss town of [[Zug]]
Image:Stumpf Froschauer Landtaflen Wallis.jpg|The [[Valais|Canton Valais]] in ''Landtaflen''.
Image:Zürich - Trittligasse - Johannes Stumpf IMG 1245.JPG|Memorial, Trittligasse Zürich
</gallery>

==Notes==
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==References==
* {{EB1911|wstitle=Stumpf, Johann|volume= 25 |last= Coolidge |first= William Augustus Brevoort |author-link= William Augustus Brevoort Coolidge | page = 1051 |short=1}}

==External links==
*{{commons category inline|Johannes Stumpf}}

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