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PETER OF DUISBURG (d. c. 1326)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 294 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PETER OF
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DUISBURG (d. c. 1326)
  , German chronicler, was born at
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Duisburg, and became a priest-
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brother of the Teutonic Order . He wrote the Chronicon terrae Prussiae, dedicated to the
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grand-master, Werner 61 Orseln, which is one of the chief authorities for the
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history of the order in Prussia . There is a rhyming
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translation in German by Nicholas of Jeroschin, which, together with the
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original, is published in Bd . I. of the Scriptores rerum prussicarum (
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Leipzig, 1861) . See M . Toppen, Geschichte der preussischen Historiographie (Berlin, 1853); and W . Fuchs, Peter von Duisburg and das Chronicon olivense (Konigsberg, 1884) .

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