Jacob Ziegler
Deceased Person
1470 – 1549
Who was Jacob Ziegler?
The humanist and theologian Jacob Ziegler of Landau, was an itinerant scholar of geography and cartographer, who lived a wandering life in Europe. He studied at the University of Ingolstadt, then spent some time at the court of Pope Leo X before he converted to Protestantism; subsequently his geographical works were placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.
For a time he taught at Vienna; in his old age, 1545–49, he lived in the house of Wolfgang Salm, Bishop of Passau. His portrait by Wolf Huber, executed about 1540, when he was about seventy years old, is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
His main geographical treatise, Schondia, was published under the title Quae intus continentur Syria, Palestina, Arabia, Aegyptus, Schondia, Holmiae... at Strasbourg in 1532.
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- Born
- 1470
- Nationality
- Germany
- Education
- University of Ingolstadt
- Died
- Aug 1, 1549
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on July 23, 2013
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