Peter Hafftiz (also ''Haftiz''; ''Petrus Haftitius, Hafftitius'', c. 1525 – c. 1601) was a

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. The chronicle is extant in a number of manuscripts in his hand, under various titles, among others ''Microchronicon Marchium'', and in a number of later manuscript copies. Minor works by Hafftiz include ''De vita et obitu Joachimi II. S. R. I. archicamerarii ..ac d. Johannis fratris march. Br.'' (1571), ''Liber de extremo iudicio'' (1576), ''Ecloga in obitum Augusti el. Saxoniae'' (1586), ''Tractat vom Adel u. dessen Ursprung'' (1587 manuscript). Hafftiz' ''Microchronicon Marchium'' was edited in 1862, from a manuscript beginning with the year 1411, in

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's ''Codex Diplomaticus Brandenburgensis'' (vol. IV.1
pp. 46
��168).

References

Sources

*Schultze, Johannes, "Hafftiz, Peter" in: ''Neue Deutsche Biographie'' 7 (1966), 463f.
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* *Friedrich Holtze, 'Die Berolinensien des Peter Hafftiz', ''Schriften des Vereins für die Geschichte Berlins'' 31, Berlin, 1894. {{DEFAULTSORT:Hafftiz, Peter 1520s births 1600s deaths German schoolteachers Chroniclers from the Holy Roman Empire Writers from Berlin People from the Margraviate of Brandenburg History of Brandenburg 16th-century writers in Latin 16th-century German writers 16th-century German male writers 16th-century German historians