Daniil Prinz of Buchow

Daniil Prinz of Buchow

 

Born 1546; died 1608. Ambassador of the Holy Roman Empire in Russia.

Daniil Prinz was in Moscow in 1576, and in 1578 he carried on negotiations about the Polish throne. Livonia, and the war with Turkey. He was the author of the work The Origin and Rise of Muscovy, which contained valuable information on the Livonian War. the oprichnina, the condition of the peasantry, and so forth. Knowing Polish, Czech, and some Russian, Daniil Prinz used chronicles and accounts of contemporaries. The works of Daniil Prinz were published for the first time in Latin in Silesia in 1668. There is a Russian translation of his works (Readings in the Society of History and Russian Antiquities, 1876, books 3–4).

REFERENCE

Adelung, F. Kritiko-literaturnoe obozrenie puteshestvennikov po Rossii do 1700 g. i ikh sochinenii, part I. Moscow, 1864. Pages 188–96.