Veit Arnpeck
Veit Arnpeck (c. 1440 in Freising – 1496 in Landshut) was a Bavarian historian. He was educated at Amberg and Vienna and later became parish priest of St. Martin's Church, Landshut and chaplain to Bishop Sixtus. He is considered a significant figure in the development of Bavarian historiography and was praised by Johannes Aventinus (Aventin) as one of his most important predecessors. His works include Chronicon Austriacum down to 1488 (Pez, Script. rer. Austr., I, 1165), Liber de gestis episcoporum Frisingensium (Deutinger, Beitr. z. Gesch. d. Erzbisth. Munch.-Fries., III), and the Chronicon Baioariorum (Pez, Thesaurus, III, ii, 19 sq.).
Arnpeck died early 1496[1] in Landshut, and with reasonable certainty the cause of death was the plague.[2]
From the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia
Veit Arnpeck — Bavarian historian, b. at Landshut in 1440; d. at the same place about the year 1505. He was educated at Amberg and at Vienna, was parish priest of St. Martin's Church in his native city, and chaplain to Bishop Sixtus. He is counted among the fathers of Bavarian history, and is praised by Aventin as one of his most important predecessors. He wrote a "Chronicon Austriacum", down to 1488 (Pez, Script. rer. Austr., I, 1165); "Liber de gestis episcoporum Frisingensium" (Deutinger, Beitr. z. Gesch. d. Erzbisth. Munch.-Fries., III); and the "Chronicon Baioariorum" (Pez, Thesaurus, III, ii, 19 sq.). This is far superior to his former writings, but is itself equally surpassed by the unpretentious narrative of the German version, which the compiler himself undertook, and carried ten years further.
Stamminger in Kirchenlex., s.v.; Wegele, Gesch. d. deutschen Historiographie (Munich, 1885), 156-160.
References
- Back to citation S. Riezler: Historische Zeitschrift, Bd. 115, H. 2 (1916), S. 342–345 ff
- Back to citation G. Leidinger: Veit Arnpecks „Chronik der Bayern“, Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, München 1936, S. 9
Bibliography
- Attribution