Jans der Enikel (), or Jans der Jansen Enikel (), was a Viennese chronicler and narrative poet of the late 13th century. He wrote a Weltchronik () and a Fürstenbuch (, a history of Vienna), both in Middle High German verse. Name and biography In his own works, he identifies himself as Jans, the grandson of Jans: enikel is simply the Middle High German word for "grandson" (modern German: Enkel). The exact form of the name varies, partly because of variant spellings in the manuscripts. The 19th-century editor, Philipp Strauch, called the chronicler Jansen Enikel, intending "Jansen" as a genitive referring to the grandfather, but forms with a definite article (e.g. Jansen der Eninkel or Jansen der Enenkel) are also found in 19th-century scholarship. From the mid-20th century, Jans Enikel became common, but this raised the danger of misconstruing "Enikel" as a surname: the second edition of the Verfasserlexikon, for example, erroneously listed him as "Enikel, Jans". Since the name itself is simply Jans, and Enikel is an identifier comparable with "Jans junior", the chronicler should always be alphabetized under J, not E. More recent scholarship has either returned to the definite article "Jans der Enikel", adopted a new suggestion "Jans von Wien" (), or simply used "Jans" with no extension at all. In the same passages in which he gives us his name, Jans claims to be a citizen of Vienna with full patrician rights. Elsewhere he mentions that a Herrn Jansen sun, presumably his father, was honoured by the duke in 1239, and that as a child he had seen the army marching off to the Battle of the Leitha River, which means he could not have been born much after 1240. From other sources we know that he was a member of one of the highest patrician families of Vienna, and his name appears in Viennese council records for the years 1271–1302. In these records he appears as "Jans der Schreiber" (), so it is likely he was secretary to the city council (). These sources suggest that his father was the city judge Konrad, and his mother belonged to the powerful Paltram family. There are also references to his son and son-in-law. We even know his address, in Wildwerkerstraße, modern Wipplingerstraße. This makes him one of the best attested of all medieval German poets. Weltchronik The Weltchronik tells the history of the world in around 30,000