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VMs: Georg BARCHIUS -- who and why?



    > [stolfi:] http://www.ucm.es/info/folchia/Blibros.htm
    > Barchius, Georg, Pyrosophia, Leiden, 1698.
    > 
    > [Rafal:] This is an obvious error in the name. The author of
    > those titles was Johann Conrad Barchusen (1666-1723). More info
    > at:
    > 
    > http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Catalog/Files/barchusn.html

Indeed.  But then, where did they get the name "Georg Barchius" from?
Perhaps from the ex-libris? 

    > I am now quite convinced our Baresch was a member of the Bares
    > z Kamenice family of landed gentry in the Melnik area. It makes
    > sense - but more info about this family is needed.

Good luck! 

All the best,

--stolfi