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Johann Stumpf (
1500-
1578) was an early writer on the history and
topography of
Switzerland.
He was born at
Bruchsal (near
Karlsruhe), and was educated there and at
Strasbourg and
Heidelberg. In
1520 he became a
cleric or
chaplain in the order of the
Knights Hospitaller. He was sent in
1521 to the
preceptory of that order at
Freiburg in
Breisgau, ordained a
priest at
Basel, and in
1522 was placed in charge of the preceptory at
Bubikon (north of
Rapperswil, in the
canton of
Zürich). However, Stumpf went over to the
Protestants, was present at the
great Disputation in
Bern (
1528), and took part in the
first Kappel War (
1529).
In
1529 he married the first of his four wives, a daughter of
Heinrich Brennwald, who wrote a work (still in manuscripts) 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, while new and greatly enlarged editions of the original work were issued in
1586 and
1606). The woodcuts are best in the first edition, and it remained till
Scheuchzer's day (early
18th century) the chief authority on its subject.
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 (same canton) until
1561, when he retired to Zürich (of which he'd 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 (
Lobspruche) about each of the thirteen Swiss cantons.
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