Johann Friedrich Schannat, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Johann Friedrich Schannat

German historian

Date of Birth: 23-Jul-1683

Place of Birth: Luxembourg

Date of Death: 06-Mar-1739

Profession: historian, church historian, regional historian

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Johann Friedrich Schannat (23 July 1683 – 6 March 1739) was a German historian. Schannat was born in Luxembourg.
He studied at the University of Louvain and when twenty-two years of age was a lawyer, but before long he turned his attention exclusively to history and became a priest.
The Prince-Abbot of Fulda commissioned Schannat to write the history of the abbey and appointed him historiographer and librarian.
At a later date he received similar commissions from Franz Georg von Schonborn, Archbishop of Trier and Bishop of Worms.
In 1735 the Archbishop of Prague, Count Moriz von Manderscheid, sent Schannat to Italy to collect material for a history of the councils.
He made researches with especial success in the Ambrosian Library in Milan and the Vatican Library at Rome.
He died in Heidelberg.