Franz Töpsl

Franz Töpsl (18 November 1711 – 12 March 1796) was an Augustinian Canon Regular, provost of Polling Abbey, historian and librarian.

[1] The lawyer Johann Georg von Lori founded the Bayerische Gelehrte Gesellschaft (Learned Society of Bavaria) on 12 October 1758.

[2] This led to the foundation by Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities on 28 March 1759.

In his spare time he compiled Scriptores ordinis canonicorum regularium S. Augustini, biographical and bibliographical works about writers belonging to his order.

[1] The archive of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich holds a collection of about 90 portraits of Augustinian canons, acquired after the secularization of the Bavarian monasteries in 1803.