Wacker von Wackenfels

Deceased Person

1550 – 1619

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Who was Wacker von Wackenfels?

Johannes Matthaeus Wacker von Wackenfels was an active diplomat, scholar and author, with an avid interest in history and philosophy. A follower of Neostoicism, he sought to resolve the doubts he still had about his conversion to Catholicism", according to STUDIA RUDOLPHINA - Bulletin of the Research Center for Visual Arts and Culture in the Age of Rudolf II.

He was born in Konstanz in 1550 in a Lutheran Protestant family and studied in Strasbourg, Geneva and Padua. He was supported and promoted by Johannes Crato von Krafftheim, who put his way into the circle of Renaissance humanism in Northern Europe in Breslau. On Cratos and Hubert Languet's recommendation, he became tutor in noble houses. In 1574 he traveled from Vienna to Italy, where he met Jakob Monau and Fabier Ien de Dohna. In 1575 he received his doctorate in Padua. As a steward accompanied the son of Nicholas of Rhediger on the Grand Tour. In 1576 he returned to Breslau and became the confidant of bishop Andreas von Jerin. In 1591 Wackenfels was Chancellor of the Upper Silesian provincial team. In 1583 he married Sophie Poley in Dresden, a sister of Wroclaw businessman and gentleman on animal garden Christoph Poley. In 1592 Wackenfels converted to the Catholic faith and in 1594, he was in the Ennoblement. In 1595 he married his second wife Catherine of Troilo, being then Franz Troilo's brother in law. a sister of his first wife and second daughter of Johann Franz Troilo, and allied himself as one of the most influential families in Wroclaw and in spring of the same year he made an invitation of his friend Valens Acidalius to go to Neisse. In 1597 was appointed to the Aulic Council, where he served until 1612, from 1608 as a trainee. In 1611 he has devoted his friend Johannes Kepler, whom dedicated to him his "Strena seu nive sexangula".

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Born
1550
Konstanz
Religion
  • Catholicism
Nationality
  • Germany
Died
Sep 7, 1619
Vienna

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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