Andreas Buchner (historian) explained

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 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]

Notes and References

1. [Karl Theodor von Heigel]
2. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008399088 Geschichte von Baiern
3. http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2010077179/ Most widely held works by Andreas Buchner