Wolfgang Zündelin

Wolfgang Zündelin (* 1538 in Constance ; † 1614 in Winterthur ) was educator at the court in Heidelberg, around 1581 in Venice as a reporter in the Palatinate and Hessian services and as a scholar. In 1585 he was a representative of the German students in Siena , where he was able to liberate several young Saxon nobles (Einsiedel, Miltitz, etc.) arrested by the Inquisition through skillful negotiation. In 1589 he came to Dresden, in the spring of 1590 he was transferred to Venice as ambassador , after his return he lived in the house of Nikolaus Krell . On August 28, 1590, Zündelin became councilor. After Krell's arrest, he received house arrest, and in early 1592 he was released and went to Nassau. In 1600 he secretly escaped from the Palatinate service.

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• Thomas Klein: The struggle for the Second Reformation in Electoral Saxony (1586–1591). (Central German Research, Volume 25), Cologne / Graz 1962.
• Ruth Kohlndorfer-Fries: Wolfgang Zündelin and the 'confessional' news policy in the second half of the 16th century. in: Heidrun Kugeler, Christian Sepp, Georg Wolf (eds.): International Relations in the Early Modern Age. Approaches and Perspectives, Münster (LIT) 2006 (Reality and Perception in the Early Modern Age, 3), ISBN 3-8258-7583-0 , pp. 102–119.
• Friedrich von Bezold : Wolfgang Zündelin as Protestant newspaper writer and diplomat in Italy, 1573–1590. Munich 1882, in: Meeting reports of the philosophical-philological and historical class of the kb Academy of Sciences in Munich 1882, Vol. 2. pp. 139-174 online .