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GOLDAST AB HAIMINSFELD, MELCHIOR (1576-1635) , Swiss writer, an industrious though uncritical See also:

collector of documents See also:relating to the See also:medieval See also:history and Constitution of See also:Germany, was See also:born on the 6th of See also:January 1576 (some say 1578), of poor See also:Protestant parents, near Bischofszell, in the Swiss See also:Canton of See also:Thurgau. His university career, first at See also:Ingolstadt (1585-1586), then at See also:Altdorf near See also:Nuremberg (1597-1598), was cut See also:short by his poverty, from which he suffered all his See also:life, and which was the See also:main cause of his wanderings. In 1598 he found a See also:rich See also:protector in the See also:person of Bartholomaeus Schobinger, of St See also:Gall, by whose liberality he was enabled to study at St Gall (where he first became interested in medieval documents, which abound in the conventual library) and elsewhere in See also:Switzerland. Before his See also:patron's See also:death (1604) he became (1603) secretary to See also:Henry, See also:duke of See also:Bouillon, with whom he went to See also:Heidelberg and See also:Frankfort. But in 1604 he entered the service of the See also:Baron von Hohensax, then the possessor of the See also:precious MS. See also:volume of old See also:German poems, returned from See also:Paris to Heidelberg in 1888, and, partially published by Goldast. Soon he was back in Switzerland, and by 16o6 in Frankfort, earning his living by preparing and correcting books for the See also:press. In 1611 he was appointed councillor at the See also:court of See also:Saxe-See also:Weimar, and in 1615 he entered the service of the See also:count of Schaumburg at See also:Buckeburg. In 1624 he was forced by the See also:war to retire to See also:Bremen; there in 1625 he deposited his library in that of the See also:town (his books were bought by the town in 1646, but many of his See also:MSS. passed to See also:Queen See also:Christina of See also:Sweden, and hence are now in the Vatican library), he himself returning to Frankfort. In 1627 he became councillor to the See also:emperor and to the See also:archbishop-elector of Treves, and in 1633 passed to the service of the See also:landgrave of See also:Hesse-See also:Darmstadt. He died at See also:Giessen See also:early in 1635. His immense See also:industry is shown by the fact that his biographer, Senckenburg, gives a See also:list of 65 See also:works published or written by him, some extending to several substantial volumes. Among the more important are his Paraeneticorum veterum pars i.

(1604), which contained the old German tales of Kunig Tyrol von Schotten, the Winsbeke and the Winsbekin; Suevicarum rerum scriptores (Frankfort, 16o5, new edition, 1727); Rerum Alamannicarum scriptores (Frankfort, 16o6, new edition by Senckenburg, 1730); Constitutions imperiales (Frankfort, 1607-1613, 4 vols.); Mon, archia s. Romani imperil (See also:

Hanover and Frankfort, 1612-1614, 3 vols.); See also:Commentarii de regni Bohem.iae juribus (Frankfort, 1627, new edition by Schmink, 1719). He also edited De See also:Thou's History (16o9-161o) and Willibald Pirckheimer's works (161o). In 1688 a volume of letters addressed to him by his learned See also:friends was published. Life by Senckenburg, prefixed tc his 1730 See also:work. See also R. von See also:Raumer's Geschichte d. germanischen Philologie (See also:Munich, 1870). (W. A. B.

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