Johann Schiltberger
Johann (Hans) Schiltberger (1380 – c. 1440) was a German traveller and writer. His Reisebuch contains not only a record of his own experiences and a sketch of various chapters of contemporary Eastern history, but also an account of countries and their manners and customs.
Quotes
[edit]- Then each was ordered to kill his own prisoners, and for those who did not wish to do so the king appointed others in their place. Then they took my companions and cut off their heads, and when it came to my turn, the king's son saw me and ordered that I should be left alive, and I was taken to the other boys, because none under twenty years of age were killed, and I was scarcely sixteen years old.
- Reisebuch, ch. 2 (tr. J. Buchan Telfer)
- After the Battle of Nicopolis, 25 September 1396
- They met near a city called Augury, where they fought desperately. Weyasit had quite thirty thousand men of White Tartary, whom he placed in the van at the battle. They went over to Temerlin; then they had two encounters, but neither could overcome the other. Now Tämerlin had thirty-two trained elephants at the battle, and ordered, after mid-day, that they should be brought into the battle. This was done, and they attacked each other; but Weyasit took to flight, and went with at least one thousand horsemen to a mountain. Tamerlin surrounded the mountain so that he could not move, and took him.
- Reisebuch, ch. 13 (tr. J. Buchan Telfer)
- The Battle of Ankara, 28 July 1402
External links
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- J. Buchan Telfer, The Bondage and Travels of Johann Schiltberger (London: Hakluyt Society, 1879)