Итальян Ренессансының неміс ділдары: Иоганн Бурхард

German priest

Johann Burchard, also spelled Johannes Burchart or Burkhart (c.1450–1506) was an Alsatian born priest and chronicler during the Italian Renaissance. He spent his entire career at the papal Courts of Sixtus IV, Innocent VIII, Alexander VI, Pius III, and Julius II, serving as papal Master of Ceremonies, a position from which he was able to observe most of the important events of the period.

As his surname suggests Burkhardt was a German born at Niederhaslach in Alsace, (today the Bas Rhin in France). Of humble origins, he was educated by the collegial chapter of St. Florent in Niederhaslach. He took the degree Doctor of Canon Law (Decretorum Doctor, as he proclaims in his preface to his Ordo Missae), and then, on 4 June 1477, was able to purchase the bourgeois citizenship of Strasbourg. He eventually became secretary to Jean Wegeraufft, the Vicar General of the Bishop of Strasbourg, Ruppert von Simmern. Suspected of trafficking in dispensations from publishing marriage banns, theft of a sword and of a florin, he left his position with the Vicar about 1467. He went to Rome, where he was awarded the expectation of a benefice in Strasbourg, but it was contested in Strasbourg; Burchard won his case before the Roman Rota (court of appeal), but the authorities in Strasbourg refused to recognize the ruling, citing Burchard's previous misdeeds. In Rome, Burchard twice admitted his misdeeds to the authorities, but his standing seems not to have suffered. Burchard was ordained a priest in 1476.

Johann Burchard was portrayed by Ralph Nossek in the 1981 BBC RAI production TV series The Borgias, by Simon McBurney in the 2011 Showtime series The Borgias, by Victor Schefé in the 2011 French German series Borgia, and by Shawn Shillingford in the 2018 CNN series Pope: The Most Powerful Man in History.