OTTO BRAUNSBERGER. - German Jesuit, b. at Füssen (Bavaria) in 1850, d. at Roermond on 26 March 1926; he was ordained priest in 1874; entered the Society in 1878.
He published several articles and studies on religious history, but the work of his life was the edition of the correspondence of St. Peter Canisius, in 8 vols. (B. Petri Canisii Epistulae et acta, 8 vols., Freiburg im Br. 1896-1923); he left two volumes of supplementary material in manuscript, still unpublished. To complete this edition, he refused to write an extensive life of Canisius, though he did leave a profile of him: *Petrus Canisius, ein Lebendbild* (Freiburg 1917; Italian adaptation by G. De Giovanni, Isola del Liri 1925).
Bibl.: Fr. van Hoeck, P. Dr. O. B., in *Studien*, 105 (1926), pp. 465-68.