His Ursperger Chronicle (or Chronicon Urspergensis) is the most important universal history of the late Staufer era.
[3] Burchard was succeeded as provost by Conrad of Lichtenau,[4] who was long thought to have finished his chronicle or at least edited it.
[5] The Ursperger Chronicle, composed in Latin prose, begins with the legendary King Ninus, founder of Nineveh, and extends to the year 1229.
This led to the Chronicle's being placed on the Catholic Index of Prohibited Books in 1575, a sentence lifted by Cardinal Bellarmine in 1593.
Another edition by Melanchthon and Mylius appeared at Basel in 1569, erroneously attributing the sole authorship of the chronicle to Burchard's successor, Conrad.