Incorrect life data for "Schinderhannes" (famous german outlaw): He was born in autumn 1779, not in 1783.

[Historical Commission of the Rhineland 1789-1815]

This information is based on the results of the actual scientific project about Johannes Bückler, called Schinderhannes (1779-1803).

[solrize (solrize)]

This seems to be about http://openlibrary.org/b/OL15969845M and http://openlibrary.org/b/OL18150102M .

There are english and german wikipedia articles about the subject:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schinderhannes
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_B%C3%BCckler

The english article says "c. 1778" and the more detailed german article says 1779.

Actually quite a few other books (mostly in subject categories) mention the incorrect 1783 date:

http://openlibrary.org/search?q=schinderhannes+1783

And a couple of books give his name as "Johannes Biegler".

What is the best way to deal with this? Just fix all the dates through the wiki? What about reporting the fixes to the upstream data source? We should come up with some way to do that.

[Historical Commission of the Rhineland 1789-1815 (scheibe)]

Dear Sir or dear Madame,

the life data of Schinderhannes (Johannes Bückler, Pickler, Biegler or similar) are based on the results of the actual scientific project about this person at the University of Mainz (Germany). Since his death in 1803 there was no similar project, that's why the life data in most sources are incorrect. In the last 200 years Schinderhannes has been moved into a legendary person and there were more tales known than facts. Due to the interest in Germany and abroad, all historic documents have now been collected. The actual scientific results are published in
Scheibe, Mark: Schinderhannes. Nichtsnutz, Pferdedieb, Räuberhauptmann ?; 2008, 450pp. (="Schinderhannes. No-good, horse-thief, villain").

I would be happy, if the data could be rectified.

Kind regards,
Mark Scheibe

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Von: <email address hidden> [<email address hidden>] im Auftrag von solrize [<email address hidden>]
Gesendet: Sonntag, 15. Februar 2009 23:52
An: Scheibe, Dr. Mark A.
Betreff: [Bug 329693] Re: Incorrect life data for "Schinderhannes" (famous german outlaw): He was born in autumn 1779, not in 1783.

This seems to be about http://openlibrary.org/b/OL15969845M and
http://openlibrary.org/b/OL18150102M .

There are english and german wikipedia articles about the subject:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schinderhannes
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_B%C3%BCckler

The english article says "c. 1778" and the more detailed german article
says 1779.

Actually quite a few other books (mostly in subject categories) mention
the incorrect 1783 date:

http://openlibrary.org/search?q=schinderhannes+1783

And a couple of books give his name as "Johannes Biegler".

What is the best way to deal with this? Just fix all the dates through
the wiki? What about reporting the fixes to the upstream data source?
We should come up with some way to do that.

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Incorrect life data for "Schinderhannes" (famous german outlaw): He was born in autumn 1779, not in 1783.
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Bug description:
This information is based on the results of the actual scientific project about Johannes Bückler, called Schinderhannes (1779-1803).

[solrize (solrize)]

OK, I just fixed a bunch of these manually. Note you can also fix such errors yourself on any book, by clicking "edit" at the top of the book info page.