Aventinus

Aventinus [JOHANNES THURMAYR], a scholar and historian, born at Abensberg (Lat. Aventinum), Bavaria, in 1477, studied at Ingolstadt, Vienna, and Paris, and afterwards taught Greek and mathematics at Cracow. In 1509 the Duke of Bavaria called him to Munich, and intrusted him with the education of his sons. Here Aventinus wrote his history of Bavaria (Annales Boiorum). This work was not published until twenty years after his death, which took place at Ratisbon in 1534, and then only with large portions, more true than pleasant, about the Romish Church, excised. These, however, were all restored in Cisner's edition of 1580. Aventinus wrote several other learned works on history and antiquities. A complete edition of his works was issued by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (Munich, 5 vols. 1880-84). His monument was erected in his native town in 1861. See Döllinger's Aventinus und seine Zeit (Munich, 1877).