Veit Arnpeck (c. 1440 in

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– 1496 in

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) was a

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. He was educated at

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and

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and later became

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of St. Martin's Church, Landshut and chaplain to Bishop Sixtus. He is considered a significant figure in the development of Bavarian historiography and was praised by Johannes Aventinus (Aventin) as one of his most important predecessors. His works include ''Chronicon Austriacum'' down to 1488 ( Pez, Script. rer. Austr., I, 1165), ''Liber de gestis episcoporum Frisingensium'' ( Deutinger, Beitr. z. Gesch. d. Erzbisth. Munch.-Fries., III), and the ''Chronicon Baioariorum'' (Pez, Thesaurus, III, ii, 19 sq.). Arnpeck died early 1496 in Landshut, and with reasonable certainty the cause of death was the plague.G. Leidinger: Veit Arnpecks „Chronik der Bayern“, Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, München 1936, S. 9

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