About Werner Schodoler
Lived 1490 – 1541 (aged 50–51). Werner Schodoler was a Swiss writer, historian, chronicler, schultheiss and municipal clerk.
Werner Schodoler (also Wernher Schodoler (1490 in Bremgarten, Aargau – 15 October 1541, in Bremgarten, Aargau) was a Swiss chronicler. He was the author of Swiss History, the earliest of the Swiss illustrated chronicles.
Literature Walter Muschg and Eduard A. Gessler Die Schweizer Bilderchroniken des 15/16 Jahrhunderts Zurich, Atlantis Verlag, 1941.
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Werner Schodoler was born in 1490 in Bremgarten.
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Werner Schodoler died on 15 October 1541 in Bremgarten.
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Werner Schodoler was a writer, historian, chronicler, schultheiss and municipal clerk.
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Werner Schodoler was Swiss.
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