Brusch (or Bruschel), Gaspard

Brusch (Or Bruschel), Gaspard a German writer, was born at Schlackenwald, in Bohemia, in August 1518. Wolfgang, bishop of Salms, gave him a residence at Passau, where he. devoted himself entirely to the ecclesiastical history of Germany. The first volume of his projected work, De Germaniae Episcopatibus Epitome, which was never finished, was published at Nuremberg, 1549, 8vo; also, at Ingolstadt (1551 fol.), as, Monasteriorum Germaniae Praecipuorum Chronologia. He was murdered in 1559. See Landon, Eccles. Dict. s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.