{"id":414,"date":"2017-02-15T19:56:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T03:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ftl.dlwa.com\/?p=414"},"modified":"2025-07-01T09:28:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T16:28:33","slug":"a-hangmans-diary-being-the-journal-of-master-franz-schmidt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ftl.dlwa.com\/?p=414","title":{"rendered":"A hangman&#8217;s diary, being the journal of Master Franz Schmidt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--\n<strong>From the Library - The Nuremberg executioner: Master Frantz Schmidt<\/strong>\n<strong>2\/15\/2017<\/strong>\n--><br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ftl.dlwa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Old-town-hall-Rataus-of-Nuremberg.png\" alt=\"Nuremberg Town Hall\"><br \/>\nOld Town Hall (Rathaus) of Nuremberg &#8211; 1614<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Today two books from the stacks, are featured. The first is <em>&#8220;A hangman&#8217;s diary, being the journal of Master Franz Schmidt, public executioner of Nuremberg, 1573-1617&#8221;<\/em> by Franz Schmidt.<\/p>\n<p>The author of this volume is Master Franz Schmidt (1555\u20131634), an executioner in Nuremberg. Under the supervision of his father he started the profession of executioner at the age of eighteen. During his career of forty-five years (1573 to 1617) he performed more than 350 executions. First hand accounts, such as this, are rare and that Schmidt kept a diary even more rare. This is an enlightening window into the legal system of the sixteenth and seventeenth century when punishments were far different that those of later periods.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/ftl.dlwa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/HV8579_S3513-conver-thumb.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ftl.dlwa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/HV8579_S3513-conver-thumb.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-375\" width=\"128\" height=\"207\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nDLWA Call Number: HV8579 .S3513<\/p>\n<p>Worldcat: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/hangmans-diary-being-the-journal-of-master-franz-schmidt-public-executioner-of-nuremberg-1573-1617\/oclc\/2050684&amp;referer=brief_results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Title: A Hangman&#8217;s Diary<\/li>\n<li>Language: English<\/li>\n<li>Setting: Europe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The second volume is <em>&#8220;The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century&#8221;<\/em> by Joel F. Harrington.<\/p>\n<p>Joel Harrington came across the diary of Frantz Schmidt and became fascinated with the dichotomy of executioner and an apparently progressive and sensitive person. Harrington explored the person and time with an eye to the greater cultural context of the age.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/ftl.dlwa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Faithful_executioner.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ftl.dlwa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Faithful_executioner-200x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-378\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ftl.dlwa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Faithful_executioner-200x300.png 200w, http:\/\/ftl.dlwa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Faithful_executioner.png 544w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nDLWA Call Number: HV8551 .H374 2013<\/p>\n<p>Amazon.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Faithful-Executioner-Turbulent-Sixteenth-Century\/dp\/1250043611\/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Title: The Faithful Executioner<\/li>\n<li>ISBN:  1250043611 (ISBN13: 13: 978-1250043610)<\/li>\n<li>Language: English<\/li>\n<li>Setting: Europe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211;DLW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Town Hall (Rathaus) of Nuremberg &#8211; 1614 Today two books from the stacks, are featured. The first is &#8220;A hangman&#8217;s diary, being the journal of Master Franz Schmidt, public executioner of Nuremberg, 1573-1617&#8221; by Franz Schmidt. The author of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ftl.dlwa.com\/?p=414\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-history","category-interesting-authors"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ftl.dlwa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ftl.dlwa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ftl.dlwa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ftl.dlwa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ftl.dlwa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/ftl.dlwa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1249,"href":"http:\/\/ftl.dlwa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions\/1249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ftl.dlwa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ftl.dlwa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ftl.dlwa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}