!!!Zeiller, Martin

b. Ranten (Styria), April 17, 1589, 
d. Ulm (Germany), Oct. 6, 1661, writer, topographer, translator. 
Private tutor and secretary to the Protestant nobility in Upper 
Austria from 1612-1629; travelled to France and Italy; 1633 teacher at 
the grammar school in Ulm; 1643 inspector responsible for German 
schools; became a popular 17th century writer; especially famous for 
his itineraries (1632-1640) and the manual "Fidus Achates oder der 
getreue Rayssgefaert" (1651); wrote the text to Matthaeus  
Merian´s "Topographiae Germaniae" (from 1642).

!Further works
Episteln oder Sendschreiben ..., 6 vols., 1640-1647; 
Chronicon parvum Sueviae ..., 1653; Handbuch von allerley ... 
Denckwuerdigkeiten ..., 1655; Collectanea Oder Nachdenckliche Reden 
..., 1658; Miscellanea Oder Allerley ... denckwuerdige Sachen ..., 
1661. - Translations of French texts.

!Literature
W. Kuehlmann, Lektuere fuer den Buerger, in: W. Brueckner 
et al. (eds.), Literatur und Volk im 17. Jh., 1982.



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