Veit Arnpeck

Veit Arnpeck (* around 1440 in Freising ; † beginning of 1496 in Landshut ) was a Bavarian historian . He is considered the most important Bavarian chronicler before Johannes Aventinus .

Arnpeck was born around 1440 as the son of the Freising shoemaker Christoph Arnpeck. He went to school in Amberg and studied at the University of Vienna from 1454 to 1457 . Afterwards he worked as a chaplain in Amberg ( St. Georg ) in 1465 and changed as a priest to Landshut ( St. Martin ; later St. Jobst) and Freising (St. Andreas).

Arnpeck wrote four well-known works: a Chronicon Austriacum (Austrian Chronicle), which extends until 1495, and a Liber de gestis episcoporum Frisingensium (book about the deeds of the Freising bishops), which also extends until 1495. He worked on his main work, the Chronica Baioariorum (Chronicle of Bavaria) in Latin from 1491 to 1495. It is considered to be the most important work in the Bavarian history of the Middle Ages . He also translated these into German and dedicated them to his patron and Bishop Sixtus von Tannberg .

Arnpeck died in Landshut in 1496, and the cause of death was almost certainly the plague.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ S. Riezler: Historische Zeitschrift, Vol. 115, H. 2 (1916), pp. 342–345 ff
2. ^ So in agreement Hans Rall and Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz.
3. ↑ S. Riezler: Historische Zeitschrift, Vol. 115, H. 2 (1916), pp. 342–345 ff
4. ↑ G. Leidinger: Veit Arnpecks "Chronik der Bayern", Verlag der Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich 1936, p. 9

expenditure

• Georg Leidinger (Ed.): Veit Arnpeck. All the chronicles . Scientia-Verlag, Aalen 1969 (reprint of the Munich 1915 edition; online ).

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Arnpeck, Veit. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 244.
• Stefan Dicker: Country awareness and current affairs. Studies on the Bavarian chronicle of the 15th century . Böhlau, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20103-6 , pp. 134-186 .
• Hans Rall:  Arnpeck, Veit. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 393 ( digitized version ).
• Sigmund von Riezler :  Arnpeck, Veit . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 596 f.

Web links

• Veit Arnpeck in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
• Literature by and about Veit Arnpeck in the catalog of the German National Library