Josias Simmler was a Swiss theologian and classicist, author of the first book relating solely to the Alps.
Simmler engraving after Heinrich Pfenninger
«Haus zur Sul»: Official residence of Ulrich Zwingli (1522–1525) and his co-workers Jakob Ceporin (1526) and Konrad Pellikan (1526–1556), and later of Peter Martyr Vermigli (1556–1562) and Josias Simmler (1563-1576), professors at the Carolinum, the academy of the Grossmünster.
Kappel am Albis is a municipality in the district of Affoltern in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
Kappel am Albis
Kappel monastery
Aerial view (1953)