Andreas Brunner (historian)

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Andreas Brunner (born November 30, 1589 in Hall in Tirol , † April 20, 1650 in Innsbruck ) was a Jesuit and Bavarian historian.

biography

Andreas Brunner joined the Society of Jesus in Landsberg am Lech in 1605 at the age of 16 and then studied at the University of Ingolstadt . After graduating, he worked as an ethics professor and university preacher in Dillingen (1619/20) and Freiburg im Breisgau . From 1622 he was electoral historiographer and president of the Marian Congregation in Munich and from 1637 as a preacher in Innsbruck.

During the Thirty Years War he was kidnapped by the Swedes from Munich to Augsburg in 1632 and held hostage until 1635. As Jesuit Provincial, he traveled to Rome in 1649 to elect the general of the order.

The main works of Andreas Brunner are the Annales virtutis et fortunae Boiorum commissioned by Elector Maximilian . His predecessor and teacher in history was Matthäus Rader SJ. Andreas Brunner had to end the depiction of Bavarian history in 1314, since his depiction of the reign of Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian and his dispute with Pope Johannes XXII. encountered opposition from the administration of the order. On the basis of the material he collected, the Annales of Nicolaus Burgundus and Johannes Vervaux SJ were continued.

Works

  • Annales virtutis et fortunae Bojorum a primis initiis ad annum 1314 (3 volumes: I 1626; II 1629; III 1635)
  • Fasti Mariani (1630)
  • Nabuchadonosorem in theatrum productum in nuptiis Maximiliani Bavar. Elector. et Mariae Annae austriacae nomine Collegii Monacensis (1635)
  • Excubiae tutelares LX heroum (1637)
  • Demonstrationem divinae Misericordiae in conversione peccatorum factam octo Dramatibus

literature

personal data
SURNAME Brunner, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jesuit and historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1589
PLACE OF BIRTH Hall in Tirol
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1650
Place of death innsbruck