Heinrich Barucher

Heinrich Barucher (* around 1390; † after 1440) was a scholar of the Benedictine order and from 1417 teacher of canon law at the artist faculty of the University of Vienna .

The theologian, who worked in humanist circles, was a pastor in Peuerbach in Upper Austria for a long time , where he became a sponsor of numerous gifted boys . His best-known protégé was the later court astronomer of Emperor Friedrich III, Georg von Peuerbach , whom he provided with a solid education in a monastery school before his matriculation in Vienna (1446) .

As early as 1422, Barucher succeeded in placing the first Peuerbach student at the Viennese alma mater , and twelve more followed by 1440. The attention of those responsible for talent continued even after Barucher's death, so that by 1500 a total of 67 young Peuerbach students were able to study in Vienna.

literature

• Friedrich Samhaber: The Kaiser and his astronomer. Friedrich III. and Georg von Peuerbach , pp. 41–45. Printing company Wambacher (Raab, Upper Austria), published by the municipality of Peuerbach 1999
• Paul Uiblein: The Vienna University, its Masters and students at the time of Regiomontan (p. 393 ff). In Günther Hamann (Ed.): Regiomontanus studies . Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1980