Andreas Buchner (historian), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Andreas Buchner (historian)

German regional historian

Date of Birth: 28-Nov-1776

Place of Birth: Essenbach, Bavaria, Germany

Date of Death: 13-Dec-1854

Profession: university teacher, regional historian

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

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.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.