Ziegler, Jacob (sold)
Jacob Ziegler (c. 1470 - 1549) was a Bavarian humanist and geographer. He received his education at the University of Ingolstadt and was friends with the scholar Willibald Pirckheimer (1470-1530). Despite having been a courtier to Pope Leo X, he would later embrace Protestantism. He taught at Vienna; claims that he had been a professor of mathematics at Uppsala University, while plausible, have not gone unchallenged. He is best known for his geographical treatise Quae intus continentur Syria, Palestina, Arabia, Aegyptus, Schondia, Holmiae... , which was published in Strasbourg in 1532 and contained new and particularly influential maps of Scandinavia and the Holy Land. His work would be adopted by Sebastian Münster and even Gerard Mercator, despite the latter's acknowledgment of Ziegler's errors.
Desirable Edition of an Early Holy Land Map.
Terra Sancta XXIII Nova Tabula.
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This is Sebastian Münster's 1540 map of the Holy Land, here in the distinctive 1552 state (with coordinate bars) appearing in the last edition of Münster's Ptolemy. This attractive and evocative map was broadly influential. While predated by its source, Jacob Ziegler's 1532 Holy Land, Münster improved both on the aesthetics and content of the map. Moreover, the inclusion of this map both in Münster's Geographia and in his Cosmographia extended this geography far beyond the reach of Ziegler's scholarly works. Among the earliest printed maps of this part of the world, Münster's is the most decorative. (more details)