Arnpeck, Veit

Arnpeck, Veit a Bavarian historian, was born about the year 1440 at Landshut. He studied at Amberg and Vienna, was for some time pastor of St. Martin's, in his native city, and died about the year 1505. He is the author of, Chronicon Austriacum to the year 1488 (reprinted by Pez, Script. rer. Austr. 1:1165): — Liber de Gestis Episcoporum Frisingens. (reprinted by Deutinger, in Beitrage zur Geschichte des Erzbisthunms Munchen- Freisingen, volume 3): — Chronicon Baivariae, 539-1495 (reprinted by Pez, Thesaurus, 3:2, 19 sq.). See Aretin, Literarisches Handbuch fur die bayer'sche Geschichte, 1:154; Pertz, Archiv. 1:487; 4:553; Deutsche Biographie, 1:596; Wetzer u. Welte's Kirchenlexikon, s.v. (B.P.)