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1675–1738
A Jesuit scholar and imperial historian, he wrote learned works on emperors, chronology, geography, and the Latin language. His books show the wide-ranging curiosity of an early 18th-century teacher who moved easily between history, reference writing, and education.
Born in Wangen im Allgäu in 1675, he entered the Jesuit order at a young age and went on to build a reputation as a capable teacher and trainer of novices. He later worked in Vienna, where he became known as a learned writer and historian.
His surviving reputation rests especially on two historical works about the emperors Leopold I and Joseph I. Sources also describe him as a prolific author whose interests ranged beyond history into chronology, geography, and lexicography, reflecting the broad intellectual world of Jesuit scholarship.
He died in Vienna on February 8, 1738. Although he is not widely known today, catalog and biographical records show that he was remembered as an industrious scholar whose books were valued for both learning and practical use.