The

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and

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Jacob Ziegler (c. 1470/71 — August 1549) of Landau in Bavaria, was an itinerant scholar of geography and

cartographer Cartography (; from grc, χάρτης , "papyrus, sheet of paper, map"; and , "write") is the study and practice of making and using maps. Combining science, aesthetics and technique, cartography builds on the premise that reality (or an ...

, who lived a wandering life in Europe. He studied at the

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, then spent some time at the court of

Pope Leo X Pope Leo X ( it, Leone X; born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, 11 December 14751 December 1521) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 9 March 1513 to his death in December 1521. Born into the prominent political an ...

before he converted to Protestantism; subsequently his geographical works were placed on the

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. For a time he taught at Vienna; in his old age, 1545–49, he lived in the house of Wolfgang Salm,

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(c. 1485-1553), executed about 1540, when he was about seventy years old, is in the

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, Vienna. His main geographical treatise, ''Schondia'', was published under the title ''Quae intus continentur Syria, Palestina, Arabia, Aegyptus, Schondia, Holmiae...'' at

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in 1532.A full bibliography was compiled by Karl Schottenloher, ''Jacob Ziegler aus Landau an der Isar'' (Münster) 1910. A manuscript for the work, formerly in the collection of

Sir Thomas Phillipps Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st Baronet (2 July 1792 – 6 February 1872), was an English antiquary and book collector who amassed the largest collection of manuscript material in the 19th century. He was an illegitimate son of a textile manufacturer ...

, in the University Library, Oslo, is discussed by Kristian Nissen, "Jacob Ziegler's Palestine Schondia Manuscript University Library, Oslo, MS. 917-4 degrees" ''Imago Mundi'' 13 (1956), pp. 45-52; see als
"Finland as a separate peninsula with several place names"
.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ziegler, Jacob 1470 births 1549 deaths German scholars History of geography Medieval German geographers 15th-century German scientists 15th-century geographers 16th-century geographers 15th-century German writers 16th-century German writers 16th-century German male writers German Renaissance humanists