Jacob Ziegler

The humanist and theologian Jacob Ziegler (c 1470/71 — August 1549) of Landau, was an itinerant scholar of geography and cartographer, who lived a wandering life in Europe. He studied at the University of Ingolstadt, then spent some time at the court of Pope Leo X before he converted to Protestantism. For a time he taught at Vienna; in his old age, 1545-49, he lived in the house of Wolfgang Salm, Bishop of Passau. His portrait by Wolf Huber (c. 1485-1553), executed about 1540, when he was about seventy years old, is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. .

His main geographical treatise, Schonia, was published under the title Quae intus continentur... at Strasbourg in 1532.