@ARTICLE{Możdżeń_Julia_Bernt_2017,
 author={Możdżeń, Julia},
 volume={vol. 34},
 journal={Libri Gedanenses},
 pages={57-89},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2017},
 publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk, Biblioteka Gdańska},
 abstract={The Gdansk chronicle by Bernt Stegmann was written in the East Central German language (Ostmitteldeutsch) in 1528 and is the oldest surviving historiographic artefact concerning Gdansk. The article sums up the author’s latest findings concerning the circumstances in which the chronicle was written and the probable addressee of the work. She also puts forward some hypotheses regarding the origin of the compiler, discusses the structure of the manuscript and the manner of its production. The chronicle is a compilation of some older historiographic sources, which place the history of the Main City of Gdansk in world history: the Jerusalem rulers and the history of the Teutonic Order. It is a type of a universal town chronicle. The content is moralizing – the compilation is a collection of historical examples teaching how to rule the town properly. It was probably written for didactic purposes for young Hans Kremer, the future mayor of Gdansk. Bernt Stegmann was a merchant trading in such places as Stockholm and Reval. The toponymic criterion indicates that his family could originate from the area of Brandenburg or Braniewo, while the dialect in which he wrote the chronicle as well as the numerous Silesian threads in the content also make it possible to be open to the hypothesis that Stegmann’s family could have come from Silesia. This question remains unresolved. The manuscript was written and made personally by Bernt Stegmann, as indicated by the atypical arrangement of its sections and non-professional binding.},
 type={Artykuł},
 title={Bernt Stegmann, a citizen of Gdansk, and his moralising compilation of 1528},
 URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/123889/PDF/3_Mozdzen_LG%2034%20(2017).pdf},
 keywords={town chronicle, history of Gdansk, Royal Prussia, Teutonic Order, legend of St. Hedwig of Silesia, Christian II of Denmark and Sweden, Kingdom of Jerusalem},
}