Abraham Hölzel

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Abraham Hölzel von Sternstein , also Hölzl, Höltzl, Höltzel, Heltzl, Hölzlin (* between 1577 and 1580 in Vienna or Tyrol ; † May 20, 1651 in Tübingen) was an artist , cartographer and engraver .

Live and act

He lived in Linz and studied from 1600 and 1604 in Tübingen a . a. Theology . He completed his cavalier tour through France, Germany, the Netherlands, Great Britain and Italy accompanied by Thomas Lansius .

He was married to Christiana Schnepf (* December 30, 1560; † April 10, 1625), a daughter of Dietrich Schnepf and granddaughter of Johannes Brenz , and was related by marriage to Thomas Lansius. In Tübingen he belonged to the circle of friends of the chiliastic lawyer and theosophist Tobias Hess . This group also included, for example, Johann Valentin Andreae , Christoph Besold , Wilhelm Bidembach von Treuenfels , Thomas Lansius , Samuel Hafenreffer and Wilhelm Schickard .

Hölzel lived in Tübingen for more than 50 years as a civis academicus. He built house no. 3 in the Neckarhalde and sold it in 1625 for 5000 guilders.

Works

  • Copper engravings for the title pages:
  • Johann Valentin Andreae: Christiani amoris dextera porrecta , Tübingen, 1620
  • Johann Valentin Andreae: Christianae societatis imago , Tübingen, 1620
  • Tabula Geographica Ducatus Wurtemberg one- color copper engraving, 60 × 60 cm, title above the map, with a portrait of Duke Johann Friedrich on the left, with a coat of arms on the right of the map, year unknown, a total of three editions, 1601, 1620 and 1659, also Tabula Hölzlinij called, a reproduction of the map by Georg Gadner .

literature

  • Otto Stochdorph: Abraham von Höltzl (1577 / 78–1651), a Tübingen cartographer from Upper Austria , in: Wolfgang Scharfe and Markus Oehrli: Kartographiehistorisches Colloquium: conference volumes, volume 4, pp. 221 to 224

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Helmut Christmann , Richard Baum (ed.): Lingua et Traditio Tübingen, 1994, p. 209.
  2. ↑ Cis van Heertum, Der Stern von Tübingen: Tobias Hess in: Web presence of the Rosenkreuz Foundation queried on February 28, 2016
  3. ^ Rudolf von Roth : The princely liberties on Hohentübingen and their kidnapping in 1635 in: Directory of the doctors appointed by the philosophical faculty of the royal Württemberg Eberhard-Karls-Universität in Tübingen in the deanery year 1887 to 1888, Tübingen, 1888, p. 11.
  4. ↑ Martin Brecht (Ed.): Contubernium, contribution to the history of the Evangelical Theological Faculty, Volume 15, Theologians and Theology at the University of Tübingen , Stuttgart, 1977, p. 143.
  5. ↑ Tabula Geographica Ducatus Wurtemberg in: Web presence of the Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart queried on February 28, 2016
  6. ↑ Link to the map
personal data
SURNAME Hölzel, Abraham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hölzel von Sternstein, Abraham (full name); Hölzlin; Hölzl; Höltzl; Höltzel; Heltzl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Engraver, cartographer and artist
DATE OF BIRTH between 1577 and 1580
PLACE OF BIRTH Tyrol or Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1651
Place of death Tübingen