Florian Baucke

Jesuit missionary
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroJesuit missionary
PlacesAustria Spain
wasMissionary Musician Composer
Work fieldMusic
Gender
Male
Religion:Catholicism
Birth24 September 1719, Wińsko, Poland
Death13 April 1780Jindřichův Hradec, Czech Republic (aged 60 years)
Star signLibra
The details

Biography

Honey harvest in a Jesuit reduction in South America, 18th Century

Florian Baucke, also Florian Paucke, Florian Pauke, Spanish: Florián Baucke (24 September 1719, Winzig , Silesia/Bohemian Royal Lands, Habsburg Monarchy (Austria) – 14 July 1779, Neuhaus , Bohemia, Austria) was a Silesian and Bohemian Jesuit missionary, who recorded the native traditions of South America.

Baucke was born in Winzig, Austrian Silesia.

In 1736, he became a member of the Society of Jesus (Jesuite).

He worked mainly in the Río de la Plata, Imperial Spain, and drew and painted the customs of the region.

He returned to Austria and Bohemia in 1768. He died, aged 59, in Neuhaus, Bohemia.

His original manuscript are in the Library of the Zwettl Abbey, Zwettl, Lower Austria.

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