Stephan Fridolin

Stephan Fridolin (1430, Winnenden– 1498, Basel) is as a Franciscan convent preacher and author.

He is first mentioned in Bamberg in 1475.

After a short stint in Mainz in 1477-78, he travels to Rome for his order, but is is abducted by pirates while en route to Corsica.

By 1480 Fridolin is back in Nuremberg, where he works as a preacher for the Clarists until he dies, interrupted only by a short stay in Basel from 1487-89.

Apart from one work on antique emperor coins, all his works dealt with religious instruction and the spiritual guidance of the nuns in the Nuremberg Clarist's convent.

He becomes famous for his devotional book Der Schatzbehalter oder Schrein der wahren Reichtümer des Heils und der ewigen Seeligkeit (1491), which is particularly important because of the ninety-six woodcuts contributed by Michael Wolgemut, teacher of Albrecht Dürer.

Alongside Hartmann Schedel's Weltchronik, it forms one of the first books illustrated by an important artist.

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