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Tigurin Chronicle

Heinrich Bullinger Werke, 4. Abteilung:

Historische Schriften, Bd. 1 (3 Teilbände)

 

Heinrich Bullinger’s importance is not limited to his work as a theological teacher, church organizer and leader of European Protestantism. He also achieved great things as a historian of the early modern period. His “History of the Reformation” is one of the central sources of our knowledge about the Reformation in Switzerland in general.

The critical edition of Bullinger’s great “Tigurinerchronik”, a history of Zurich and Europe from antiquity to the Reformation period, published by Hans Ulrich Bächtold in 2018, shows Bullinger to be a highly educated historiographer at the highest level of his time who knew his sources and worked with great care, and is an important document of 16th century historiography.

Lectures on the Tigurin Chronicle

Der Historiker Heinrich Bullinger und seine "Tigurinerchronik" (PDF, 105 KB)

Bullinger as Historian. The Tigurine Chronicle (PDF, 109 KB)

Weiterführende Informationen

Buchcover Tigurinerchronik

Heinrich Bullinger Werke. Vierte Abteilung: Historische Schriften, Band 1: Tigurinerchronik

Ed. by Hans Ulrich Bächtold

This three-volume edition makes the main historiographical work of Heinrich Bullinger (1504–1575), the so-called “Tigurinerchronik”, accessible for the first time. The work conveys the view of the committed and well-read successor to Zwinglin, who interweaves and reappraises the history of Zurich with that of the Swiss Confederation and Europe. The account, which extends from pre-Christian times to the Reformation, is based on the history of salvation and understands the development of Christianity and the church as the spread of truth (antiquity), its burial (Middle Ages) and rediscovery (Reformation). In the process, the city of Zurich is given great importance and its reform is ultimately legitimized.