Melchior Goldast [SEP] place of death
Melchior Goldast
Melchior Goldast ab Haiminsfeld (Goldastus)(6 January 1576 or 1578 - Gießen, 1635) was a Swiss jurist, and an industrious though uncritical collector of documents relating to the medieval history and constitution of Germany. He was a Calvinist writer of note.
Life.
He was born of poor Protestant parents near Bischofszell, in the Swiss canton of Thurgau. His university career, first at Ingolstadt (1595‑1596), then at Altdorf near Nuremberg (1597‑1598), was cut short by his poverty, from which he
On history sources of the earlier Middle Ages.
- "Die gefälschten Magdeburger Diplome und Melchior Goldast", 1919 – The counterfeit Magdeburg document and Melchior Goldast.