Bucelin, Gabriel

Bucelin, Gabriel a German Benedictine and historian, was born at Diessenhofen, near Torgau, and died in the abbey of Weingarten, Wurtemberg, in 1691. He was prior of the convents at Feldkirch and Rheinthal, and wrote a large number of works, among which we find Nucleus Historiae Universalis (1654-58): — Annales Benedictini (Augsburg, 1656, fol.): — Aquila Imperii Benedictinam (Venice, 1651): — Menolog. Benedictinum (Feldkirch, 1655, fol.). See Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch. der theol. Lit. 1:7, 10, 711; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. (B.P.)