Andreas Buchner (historian)

Joseph Andreas Buchner (28 November 1776, in Altheim – 13 December 1854, in Munich) was a German historian. He was the author of a highly regarded multi-volume work on Bavarian history.[1][2]

He studied theology at the Georgianum in Munich, and was ordained as a priest in 1799. From 1804 he taught classes in philosophy at the lyceum in Dillingen, then in 1811 relocated as a professor of history to the lyceum in Regensburg. In 1825 he became a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, and during the following year, was named a professor of Bavarian history at the University of Munich.[1]

Selected works
  • Geschichte von Baiern (10 volumes 1820–55) – History of Bavaria.
  • Lehrbuch der allgemeinen Geschichte (1826) – Textbook of general history.
  • Neue Beiträge zur vaterländischen Geschichte, Geographie und Statistik : eine Fortsetzung der Westenrieder'schen Beiträge über dieselben Gegenstände (with Lorenz Zierl, 1832) – New contributions to national history, geography and statistics: a continuation of Lorenz von Westenrieder's contributions on the same subjects.
  • Ueber die Einwohner Deutschlands im zweyten Jahrhundert der christlichen Zeitrechnung (1838) – On the inhabitants of Germany in the second century of the Christian chronology.
  • Krieg des Herzogs Ludwig des Reichen mit Markgraf Albrecht Achilles von Brandenburg vom Jahr 1458-1462 (1842) – War of Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria with Margrave Albrecht Achilles of Brandenburg from the year 1458 to 1462.
  • Landtafel der vier Rentämter des Fürstenthums Bayern zu Anfang der Regierung des Herzogs Maximilian I (1848) – Landtafel of the four rentamts of the principality of Bavaria at the beginning of the reign of Duke Maximilian I.
  • Der letzte Landtag der altbayerischen Landstände im Jahre 1669 (1851) – The last Landtag of the old Bavarian provinces in 1669.[3]

References
  1. Karl Theodor von Heigel: ADB:Buchner, Andreas at Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
  2. Geschichte von Baiern HathiTrust Digital Library
  3. Most widely held works by Andreas Buchner WorldCat Identities
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