Anton Pelchinger

Anton Pelchinger (died 18 September 1465) was a Bavarian Benedictine monk, artist and writer.

[1] There he served as Kapellmeister, chorister, organist and teacher of music.

He wrote a conventional description of Jerusalem and the Christian holy places.

[a] He does not include any personal details, but identifies himself as a professor of Tegernsee.

One manuscript of this work is in the Austrian National Library in Vienna (no.

Illustrations by Pelchinger for a copy of Hrabanus Maurus ' De laudibus sanctae crucis and Franz von Retz 's Defensorium inviolatae virginitatis Mariae (1459)