Jacob Ziegler
German scholar, humanist and theologian (c.1470/71 - 1549) · Academics · Lived 1480 to 1549 · aged 69
Jacob Ziegler was a humanist and theologian from Landau an der Isar in Bavaria. He was an itinerant scholar of geography and cartographer, who lived a wandering life in Europe. He studied at the University of Ingolstadt in the 1490s where he befriended Conrad Celtes and Willibald Pirckheimer.
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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.
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Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1480 to 1549 · aged 69
