Leonhard Egkelzain

Leonhard Egkelzain was the mining judge, or Bergrichter, of Schladming in Styria, whose silver, lead and copper mines in the Schladminger Tauern gave work to as many as fifteen hundred miners. In 1408 he drew up the Schladminger Bergbrief, the Schladming Mining Letter, which set down in writing the procedural rules and customary rights of the town's miners.