Meissen

In Meissen, a total of 4 epidemic events are known so far. It is a town in Saxony, Germany in Germany. The coordinates are 51° 9' 48.96" N, 13° 28' 39.00" E.

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Disease	DateStart date of the disease.	SummarySummary of the disease event	OriginalOriginal text	TranslationEnglish translation of the text	ReferenceReference(s) to literature	Reference translationReference(s) to the translation
1464-00-00-Germany	1464 ^JL	Plague in all german territories with many deaths.	Item in dusseme jare [1464] unde in deme jare hiir bevoren was en grot unde en gemeyne pestilencie in allen Dudeschen landen, alzo dat in [p. 361] deme jare, alse men scref 63, se was boven uppe deme Ryne to Basel, Strasselborch, Spire, vordan in Doringhen, in Sassen, in Myssen unde in der Marke; mer in deme 64. jare by pinxsten quam se by de see, also to Luneborch, Hamborch, Lubeke, Wismer, Rostoke, Sund unde in de lant ummelank, unde darna by assumpcionis Marie, qwam se in Dennemarken, in Prussen unde in Liflant. In dusser pestelencien storven vele lude to Lubeke, vrouwen unde man, unde sunderliken junc volk, unde [p. 362] leghen gans kort, wente in dat gemen storven se in deme dorden dage. Unde also de ersten seden, so was id en zelfene pestelencie, wente alle arstedie, der me plecht to brukende teghen de suke, de halp gar wenynich, unde unwantlik arstedye, dede na wane der arsten to der pestelencien schedelik is, halp velen luden. Unde dusse pestilencie warde to Lubecke wente omnium sanctorum.		Lübecker Ratschronik (1401–1469), pp. 360–362.	Translation needed
1464-08-00-Głogów	August 1464 ^JL	Great plague came to Głogów from the west	a.d. 1464 erat magna pestilential in Glogovia et venit a regione occidental vel per Misnam. Et ante duos vel tres annos errant multi vermes, sic quod folia arborum cum fructibus corroderunt, quod ante longa tempora non erat auditum. Et mortui sunt in viglia Mathaei 57 homines, in die Mathaei 68, in die Burckhardi 45, et incipiebat pestis circa festum Assumptionis Mariae et durabat usque ad Adventum. Et frumenta erant in bono foro, et unus florenus (?) emebatur pro marca et 6 grossis, et una auca vel anser emebatur pro 6 denariis, et si quis voluisset 100 habere. Et non pulsabatur tam in civitate quam in summon a festo Assumptionis usque Martini in sabbato.		Annales Glogovienses 1051-1493, p. 22.	Translation needed
1498-09-28-Meissen	28 September 1498 ^JL	Plague-dispensation clauses in the statutes of Meissen's cathedral chapter	Si vero per unam aut duas noctes se absentaverit, tunc denuo et a novo suam residentiam incipere tenebitur... nisi tempore pestilentiae, quo tempore capitulum sibi dispensationem reservavit [...] Reservamus tamen nobis dispensandi potestatem, ut tempore pestis talis canonicus possit se ad aliam transferre universitatem	If he [a canon] should absent himself for one or two nights, then he shall be obliged to begin his residence anew and afresh... unless it is a time of pestilence, in which case the chapter reserves the right to grant him dispensation [...] We nevertheless reserve to ourselves the power to grant dispensation, so that in time of plague such a canon may transfer himself to another university	UB Meissen 1864-67, vol. 3, p. 307, No. 1309.	Claude Sonnet 5
1519-00-00-Leipzig	1519 ^JL	A mortality in Leipzig makes the university move temporarily to Meissen. Chronological caveat: The mentioned rector of this university, Petrus Mosellanus, was in office 1520-1523.	Anno Eodem (1519) Hat man die hohe schuel von Leiptzig ein zeitlang gen Meissen transferiren musse, von wegen eines pestilentzischen sterbens, vnd ist geschehen zur zeit D. Petri Mosellani.	In the same year (1519), the university of Leipzig had to be temporarily transferred to Meißen due to a pestilential mortality, and this occurred during the time of Petrus Mosellanus (as rector).	Wellendorf Chronik 2015, p. 235.	Translation by Martin Bauch