Martin Zeiler (also ''Zeiller'', born 17 April 1589 in
Ranten, died 6 October 1661 in
Ulm) was a
Baroque era
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author.
Zeiler's father was an exile from
Upper Styria
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, forced to emigrate due to his
protestant
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confession.
Zeiler was schooled in Ulm, moving to
Wittenberg
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in 1608 to study jurisprudence and history. He worked several jobs as private teacher and notary.
He lived in Ulm from 1629, working as teacher and inspector at local schools.
Zeiler was very productive as an author, meeting the template of the Baroque
polyhistor. The Ulm city library lists 90 works authored by Zeiler.
His productivity was recognized by his contemporaries;
Georg Philipp Harsdörffer mentions ''Herrn Zeillers'' proverbial industriousness in one of his poems.
Zeiler is best known for his contribution to
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's ''
Topographia Germaniae'' (16 vol., 1642–1654).
Works
see
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* (Trad.) François de Rosset: ''Theatrum tragicum ... in die Teutsche Sprache transferirt durch M. Zeiller,'' hg.
Martin Opitz. Danzig 1640 u.ö. (25 Auflagen sind bekannt)
*''Itinerarium Italiae Nov-Antiquae''. Frankfurt 1640
* ''Fidus achates, oder Getreuer Reisgefert.'' Ulm 1651
* ''Historici, chronologici et geographi ... quo vixerunt, et operibus ... scripserunt.'' 2 Bde. Ulm 1652
* ''100 Dialogi oder Gespräch von unterschiedlichen Sachen.'' Ulm 1653
* ''Handbuch von allerley nutzlichen Erinerungen.'' 2 Bde. Ulm 1655
*''Hispaniae et Lusitaniae Itinerarium''. Amsterdam 1656
* ''
Topographia Germaniae''
* ''
Topographia Galliae''
Sources and external links
*
* Ulrich Gaier u.a. (ed.): ''Schwabenspiegel'', Bd. 1, Ulm 2003, S. 496 (Autorenlexikon)
* Walter Brunner: ''Martin Zeiller (1589–1661) – Ein Gelehrtenleben''. Graz 1990
*
Walther Killy
Walther Killy (26 August 191728 December 1995) was a German literary scholar who specialised in poetry, especially that of Friedrich Hölderlin and Georg Trakl. He taught at the Free University of Berlin, the Georg-August-Universität Götting ...
: ''
Killy Literaturlexikon'': Autoren und Werke deutscher Sprache''. (15 Bände) Gütersloh; München: Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verl. 1988–1991 (CD-ROM Berlin 1998 )
* Pictures and texts o
''Topographia Helvetiae, Rhaetiae et Valesiae'' by Matthaeus Merian et Martin Zeiller can be found in the database VIATIMAGES
*
* Constantin von Wurzbach
"Zeiler, Martin" In: ''Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich''. Band 59. Verlag L. C.
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1589 births
1661 deaths
German male writers
Writers from the Holy Roman Empire