BRUNNER, ANDREAS. - Jesuit, German historian, b. at Hall (Tyrol) on 30 Nov. 1589, d. at Innsbruck on 20 Apr. 1650. He entered the Society in 1605; in 1622 he became director of the celebrated Marian Congregation of Munich and historiographer of the Bavarian court. Of the great and esteemed work of the “Bavarian Livy,” Annales virtutis et fortunae Boiorum, only the first three volumes could be printed (Munich 1626–37), containing the history of Bavaria from 600 B.C. to A.D. 1314; Leibniz supervised a reprint in 1670. In the years 1632–35, B. was one of the 42 hostages from Munich held at Augsburg by the Swedes of Gustavus Adolphus; with great fortitude he acted as their defender. Sent to Innsbruck in 1637, he devoted himself entirely to the care of souls. An interesting form of his apostolate was represented by spiritual dramas in popular form in
the German language: Dramata sacra, oder Herzrührende Schaubihne, Salzburg 1684.