Veit Arnpeck

Veit Arnpeck (* 1440 in Freising, † beginning in 1496 in Landshut ) was a Bavarian historian. He is regarded as the most important Bavarian chronicler Johannes Aventinus before.

Arnpeck was born in 1440 as the son of Freising shoemaker Christoph Arnpeck. He went to school in Amberg and studied from 1454 to 1457 at the University of Vienna. After that, he was in 1465 working as a chaplain in Amberg ( St. George) and changed as a priest to Landshut (St. Martin; later St. Jobst ) and Freising ( St. Andrew ).

Arnpeck authored four well-known works: a Chronicon austriacum (Austrian history ), which extends to 1495, and a Liber de gestis episcoporum Frisingensium ( book about the deeds of the bishops of Freising ), also reaching to 1495. At its main value, the Chronica Baioariorum ( Chronicle of Bavaria ) in Latin, he worked from 1491 to 1495. You is the most important work of Bavarian history of the Middle Ages. This he also translated into German and dedicated it to his patron and bishop Sixtus of Tannberg.

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