Johann Reinhard Ziegler

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Johann Reinhard Ziegler , often also Johann Erhard Ziegler (born May 8, 1569 in Edenkoben , Rheinpfalz , † July 24, 1636 in Mainz ) was a Jesuit priest , mathematician, astronomer and architect, rector of the University of Mainz , and an influential advisor to three Mainz electors .

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Johann Reinhard Ziegler was born in Edenkoben in the Upper Palatinate and converted from Calvinism to Catholicism. In 1588 he entered the Jesuit order, studied mathematics, and later philosophy and theology. He obtained his master's degree in philosophy in 1590 in Würzburg , from the Jesuit professor Johann Mulhusinus (1560-1609), together with the later Speyer Auxiliary Bishop Johann Streck (1571-1623) from Undenheim .

Thereafter, Father Ziegler officiated as rector of the Jesuit colleges in Aschaffenburg and Mainz . At the University of Mainz he finally taught as a professor in the subjects mentioned and also held the office of rector. He maintained a friendly and scientific correspondence with the astronomer Johannes Kepler and he worked closely with Adriaan van Roomen in Würzburg, whom he also supported in the publication of mathematical and astronomical writings. Ziegler was friends with his religious brother, the mathematician Christophorus Clavius, and in Mainz 1611/12 he arranged for the publication of his five-volume work “Opera Mathematica”. The Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher was a student of Johann Reinhard Ziegler. Among other things, Father Kircher invented the "Pantometrum Kircherianum", a universal measuring instrument, for which, according to his own statements, he was inspired by Johann Reinhard Ziegler. The Jesuit Caspar Schott , again a pupil of Kircher, wrote in 1660 in the foreword to his work about the "Pantometrum Kircherianum":

“But the impetus for the invention of this instrument was given by the aforementioned Father Athanasius, as he ... himself confesses, Father Johann Reinhard Ziglerius, from our society, a man of the highest education in all fields and seldom practical experience, extremely famous for the former . "

- Caspar Schott : about Johann Reinhard Ziegler, Würzburg 1660

Johann Reinhard Ziegler acted from 1612 until his death in Mainz as confessor and confidante of the three electors Johann Schweikhard von Kronberg , Georg Friedrich von Greiffenclau zu Vollrads and Anselm Casimir Wambolt von Umstadt . The latter was himself a Calvinist convert and, like Ziegler, came from the Prince Bishopric of Speyer . For Elector and Archbishop Johann Schweikhard von Kronberg, Ziegler wrote the funeral sermon in 1626, which also appeared in print.

Father Ziegler often worked as the envoy of the Catholic German princes, for example in 1634 with Pope Urban VIII in Rome. Through his friendship with the emperor's advisor and confessor, Father Wilhelm Lamormaini, Johann Reinhard Ziegler also had good connections to the imperial court in Vienna. Father Ziegler was in constant contact with the Apostolic Nuncio in Cologne, Pier Luigi Carafa .

Father Johann Reinhard Ziegler SJ was one of the most influential and spirited personalities of his time in Germany. A necrologist described him as an “excellent mathematician and architect” .

For a time, Father Ziegler published under the pseudonym "Joanni Oedikhovio Nemeto", where "Oedikhovio" is probably derived from the place of birth Edenkoben and "Nemeto" from the old Roman name Speyers (Nemetum).

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  1. ↑ Source on conversion by J. Reinhard Ziegler
  2. ↑ To Johann Mulhisinus
  3. ↑ To Auxiliary Bishop Johann Streck
  4. ↑ Source on the acquisition of a master's degree in philosophy
  5. ^ Ziegler as rector of the University of Mainz
  6. ^ Letter from Kepler to Ziegler
  7. ^ Letters from Ziegler to Kepler
  8. ^ Otto Volk : Mathematics, astronomy and physics in the past of the University of Würzburg. In: Peter Baumgart (Ed.): Four hundred years of the University of Würzburg. A commemorative publication. Degener & Co. (Gerhard Gessner), Neustadt an der Aisch 1982 (= sources and contributions to the history of the University of Würzburg. Volume 6), ISBN 3-7686-9062-8 , pp. 751–785; here: p. 753.
  9. ^ Print of the Opera Mathematica by Clavius, by Reinhard Ziegler
  10. ^ Print of the "Opera Mathematica" by Clavius, by Reinhard Ziegler
  11. ^ Athanasius Kircher as a pupil of Ziegler
  12. ↑ To the "Pantometrum Kircherianum"
  13. ↑ Father Caspar Schott about Johann Reinhard Ziegler (PDF; 27 kB)
  14. ↑ Electoral confessor from 1612 until death
  15. ^ Father Ziegler as confessor of three electors
  16. ^ Father Ziegler's funeral sermon given to Elector Johann Schweikhard von Kronberg
  17. ^ Envoy in Rome
  18. ↑ On the imperial confessor Wilhelm Lamormaini ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jesuiten.at
  19. ^ Friendship between Lamormaini and Ziegler
  20. ↑ Work of Lamormaini and Ziegler
  21. ^ Ziegler and Nuncio Carafa
  22. ↑ Quotation from a necrology on Johann Reinhard Ziegler
  23. ↑ Publication as "Joanni Oedikhovio Nemeto"
personal data
SURNAME Ziegler, Johann Reinhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ziegler, Johann Erhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German priest, Jesuit, professor of various sciences, rector of the University of Mainz, advisor to the Mainz electors
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1569
PLACE OF BIRTH Edenkoben
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1636
Place of death Mainz