1612    HENTZNERUS, Paulus

 

 

Paul Hentzner was a German lawyer, born at Crossen, in Brandenburg, on the 29th of January, 1558. He died on the 1st January, 1623. In 1596, aged thirty-eight, he became tutor to the son of Karl Duke of Silesia, with whom he set out in 1597 on a three years' tour through Switzerland, France, England, and Italy. After his return to Germany in 1600, he published, at Nuremberg, in 1612, a description of what he had seen and thought worth record, written in Latin, as "Itinerarium Germaniae, Galliae, Angliae, Italiae, cum Indice Locorum, Rerum atque Verborum." Contains five roads in England but none in the South West.

Horace Walpole engaged Richard Bentley, son of the famous scholar, to translate that part of Hentzner's Itinerary which relates to England and he had two hundred and twenty copies printed at Strawberry Hill. In 1797 "Hentzner's Travels in England" were edited, together with Sir Robert Naunton's "Fragmenta Regalia,".[1]

 

Itinerarium Germaniae, Galliae; Angliae; Italiae; Scriptum a Paulo Hentsnero JC. Norimbergae, Sumtibus Autoris, et typis Abrahami Wagenmanni excusun. Clc lccXIl Nuremberg.

Nürnberg (Nuremburg). Abraham Wagenmann. 1612. (BL, B, C).

 

Further issues:

Apud haeredes Iohannis Eyringii & Iohannem Perfertum, Breslae, 1617. (BL, B, C, SoA).

Abraham Wagenmann & Johann Güntzel, Noribergae, 1629. (BL, B, MU).

Prostat apud Hæredes Schürerianos & Matthiam Götzium Bibliopol., Lipsiæ, Anno MDCLXI (1661) (UCL). 

Illustrations from 1612 edition. Images courtsy of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich. 

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[1] Hentznerus´ Travels in England and Fragmenta Regalia has been included in the Gutenberg Project: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1992/pg1992.html