Diebold Schilling the Elder

thumb|Portrait of Diebold Schilling at his studio, from the original manuscript of his Spiezer Chronik

Diebold Schilling the Elder (–1439 – 1486) was the author of several of the Swiss illustrated chronicles, the Berner Schilling of 1483, the Zürcher Schilling of 1484, and the Spiezer Schilling (1480s).

Biography

Schilling was born in Hagenau, Alsace, to Klaus Schilling, from Solothurn, and Else Weissen Henslin. In 1456, he began working at the chancellery of Lucerne.