Balthasar Brusch

Balthasar Brusch (born June 24, 1512 in Eger , Bohemia ; † April 4, 1589 ibid) was a bookbinder and bookseller as well as the author of a chronicle of the city of Eger ( Cheb ) and the Eger family of the Bruschen .

Life

Balthasar Brusch, the son of the shoemaker Thomas Peisser (1486–1551) and his wife Magdalena Bragner, was originally a master shoemaker. He received training as a bookbinder in Lutherstadt Wittenberg and after his return to his hometown Eger in Bohemia became the owner of a bookbinding and bookshop and was the initiator of festivals with religious themes. He started a chronicle of several old and new stories with events from 1134 to 1622 and happened in Eger. This is a family chronicle ( genealogy ) of the Bruschen and is kept in the archive of the city of Cheb .

family

Balthasar Brusch had eight children from his second marriage to Anna Sackh (1532–1590) from Plauen , of whom two sons (Abraham and Esaias Brusch) wrote down the father's family chronicle. Balthasar Brusch was the cousin of the humanist Kaspar Brusch .

literature

• German Gender Book - Genealogical Handbook of Bourgeois Families. Volume 207 (56th general volume) CA Starke Verlag , Limburg an der Lahn 1998, ISBN 3-7980-0207-X , lineage Brusch, Bruscha, Bruschius, Brusch von Neiberg, Brusch Edle von Bruschen from Eger in Bohemia, formerly Peisser from Ingolstadt in Bavaria, pp. 1-54; Balthasar Brusch, pp. 37-38; Kaspar Bruschius, pp. 15-17; Nikolaus Peysser (Abbot Nikolaus IV of the Waldsassen Abbey), pp. 12–13; Johann Brusch von Neiberg , pp. 45–47

• Vinzenz Prockl: History of the city of Eger and the Egerland . 2nd Edition. Prague / Eger 1877, Nikolaus Peysser from Eger as Nikolaus IV. 28th Abbot of the Cistersian Abbey of Waldsassen in the Upper Palatinate, pp. 390–391.

• Karl Siegl : On the history of the Brusch family in Eger with special consideration of the humanist Kaspar Brusch and his cousin Balthasar Brusch. In: Communications from the Association for the History of Germans in Bohemia. Volume 69, Prague 1931, p. 196 ff.

• Heribert Sturm (Ed.): Biographical lexicon for the history of the Bohemian countries. Volume I (A - H) Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-486-49491-0 , p. 157. (published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum )

• Josef Weinmann: Egerländer Biographical Lexicon with selected people from the former administrative district of Eger. Volume 1 (A - M), Männedorf / ZH 1985, ISBN 3-922-808-12-3 , p. 92.