Josias Simmler
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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.
Johann Stumpf (writer)
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Johann Stumpf was an early writer on the history and topography of Switzerland as well as a theologian and cartographer.
Josias Simmler
…eventually kill him. About 1551 he conceived the idea of making his native land better known by translating into Latin parts of the great Chronik of Johann Stumpf. With this view he collected materials, and in 1574 published a specimen of his intended work in the shape of a monograph on the Canton of the Valais…
Johannes Stumpf (c. 1536)
The Swiss region around Zürich.
Swiss nobleman by Heinrich Vogtherr, Private Collection
The battle of Morat, part of an engraving from the Stumpf Chronik