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, and in 1622 became director of the celebrated Marian Congregation of Munich and historiographer of the Bavarian court. Of his great and esteemed work, the “Bavarian Livy,” *Annales virtutis et fortunae Boiorum*, only the first three volumes could be printed (Munich 1626-37), covering the history of Bavaria from 600 B.C. to A.D. 1314; Leibniz supervised a reprint in 1670. In 1632-35, B. was one of the 42 hostages from Munich held at Augsburg by the Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus; he defended them with great fortitude of spirit. Sent to Innsbruck in 1637, he devoted himself entirely to the care of souls. A noteworthy form of his apostolate was his spiritual dramas in popular German: *Dramata sacra, oder Herzergreifende Schaubühne*, Salzburg 1684.
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BIBL.: Sommervogel, II, cols. 262-65; VIII, cols. 1940; B. Duhr, *Geschichte der Jesuiten in den Ländern deutscher Zunge*, II, Freiburg i. Br. 1913, part 1, pp. 421-28; part 2, pp. 723-48; id., *Der bayerisch Historiograph A. B.* in *Historisch-politische Blätter*, 141 (1908), pp. 62-83.