Michael Eytzinger
Austrian nobleman, diplomat, historian, and publicist · Politicians · Lived c. 1530 to 1598
Michaël Eytzinger, was an Austrian nobleman, diplomat, historian, and publicist, who wrote and published several works, including a renowned volume that states the principles of a genealogical numbering system, called an Ahnentafel, that is still in use today.
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The first ahnentafel, published by Michaël Eytzinger in Thesaurus principum hac aetate in Europa viventium Cologne: 1590, pp. 146-147, in which Eytzinger first illustrates his new functional theory of numeration of ancestors; this schema showing Henry III of France as n° 1, de cujus, with his ancestors in five generations. The remainder of the volume shows 34 additional schemas for rulers and princes of Europe using his new method.
First representation of Leo Belgicus in a map of the Low Countries by Eytzinger & Hogenberg, published in 1583About this person
Category
Politicians
Type
Public Official
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived c. 1530 to 1598
