See also:

• THIETMAR (DIETMAR or DITHMAR) OF MERSEBURG (975-1018)

THIETMAR (DIETMAR or DITHMAR) OF See also:

• MERSEBURG

MERSEBURG (975-1018)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German chronicler, was a son of Siegfried, See also:

• COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

count of Walbeck, and was related to the See also:

• FAMILY

family of the See also:

• EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor See also:

• OTTO

Otto the See also:

• GREAT

Great . See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

Born on the 25th of See also:

• JULY

July 975 he was educated at Quedlinburg and at See also:

• MAGDEBURG

Magdeburg and became See also:

• PROVOST (through O. Fr. prevost, mod. prevot, Lat. praepositus, set over, from praeponere, to place in front)

provost of Walbeck in 1002 and See also:

• BISHOP (A.S. bisceop, from Lat. episcopus, Gr. irio-Korros, " overlooker " or " overseer ")
• BISHOP, ISABELLA (1832-1904)
• BISHOP, SIR HENRY ROWLEY (1786-1855)

bishop of See also:

• MERSEBURG

Merseburg seven years later . He took some See also:

• PART

part in the See also:

• POLITICAL

political events of the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time; in 994 he was a See also:

• HOSTAGE (through Fr. ostage, modern otage, from Late Lat. obsidaticum, the state of being an obses or hostage; Med. Lat. ostaticum, ostagium)

hostage in the hands of the Northmen, and he was not unfamiliar with the actualities of See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war . He died on the 1st of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1or8 . See also:

• THIETMAR (DIETMAR or DITHMAR) OF MERSEBURG (975-1018)

Thietmar wrote a Chronicon in eight books, which deals with the See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period between 908 and Ioi8 . For the earlier part he used See also:

• WIDUKIND
• WIDUKIND, or WITTEKIND (d. c. 807)

Widukind's Res gestae Saxonicae, the Annales Quedlinburgenses and other See also:

• SOURCES

sources; the latter part is the result of See also:

• PERSONAL

personal know-ledge . It is rough in See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form and the author shows no See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of discriminating between important and unimportant events; yet the See also:

• CHRONICLE (from Gr. Xpovos, time)

chronicle is an excellent authority for the See also:

• HISTORY

history of See also:

• SAXONY
• SAXONY (Ger. Provinz Sachsen)

Saxony during the reigns of the emperors Otto III. and See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Henry II . No See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of See also:

• INFORMATION (from Lat. informare, to give shape or form to, to represent, describe)

information is excluded, but the fullest details refer to the bishopric of Merseburg and to the See also:

• WARS

wars against the See also:

• WENDS

Wends and the Poles . The See also:

• ORIGINAL

original See also:

• MANUSCRIPT

manuscript of the See also:

• WORK

work is preserved at See also:

• DRESDEN

Dresden and has been published in facsimile by L . See also:

• SCHMIDT, H
• SCHMIDT, HEINRICH JULIAN (1818-1886)
• SCHMIDT, KARL VON (1817-1875)
• SCHMIDT, WILHELM ADOLF (1812-1887)

Schmidt (Dresden, 1905) . It has been edited by J . M .

See also:

• LAPPENBERG

Lappenberg in See also:

• BAND

Band III. of the Monumenta Germaniae historica, Scriptores; and by F . Kurze (Han-over, 1889) ; and has been translated into German by J . See also:

• LAURENT, FRANCOIS (1810–1887)

Laurent (new ed. revised by W . See also:

• WATTENBACH, WILHELM (1819–1897)

Wattenbach, See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig, 1892) . See F . Kurze, Bischof Thietmar von Merseburg and See also:

• SEINE
• SEINE (Lat. Sequana)
• SEINE, or SEAN (O. Fr. seigne, mod. seine, Lat. sagena, Gr. vaytivrl, a draw-net)

seine Chronik (See also:

• HALLE (known as HALLE-AN-DER-SAALE, t0 distinguish it from the small town of Halle in Westphalia)
• HALLE, SIR CHARLES (originally KARL HALLE) (1819-1895)

Halle, 1890) ; and W . Wattenbach, Deutschlands Geschichtsguellen, Band II . (See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin, 1904) .