Juan Eusebio Nieremberg
Regina Nieremberg (née Ottin) Juan Eusebio Nieremberg y Ottín (9 September de 1595 – 7 April 1658) was a Spanish Jesuit, polymath and mystic.
Juan Eusebio Nieremberg

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- Born
- 9 September 1595
- Birthplace
- Madrid, Spain
- Died
- 7 April 1658
- Education
- University of Alcalá
- Full name
- Juan Eusebio Nieremberg y Otin.
- Nationality
- Spain
- Occupation
- writer · philosopher · naturalist · mystic · hagiographer · catholic theologian
- Languages
- Spanish · Latin
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Regina Nieremberg (née Ottin) Juan Eusebio Nieremberg y Ottín (9 September de 1595 – 7 April 1658) was a Spanish Jesuit, polymath and mystic.
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Juan Eusebio Nieremberg (1595–1658) was a catholic theologian, hagiographer and mystic, among other activities, of Spanish nationality. The catholic theologian was born Juan Eusebio Nieremberg y Otin in Madrid and died in Madrid.
Juan Eusebio Nieremberg was educated at Colegio Imperial de Madrid and University of Alcalá. The catholic theologian worked for Colegio Imperial de Madrid.
Languages used include Latin and Spanish. Works are held at Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes.
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Juan Eusebio Nieremberg studied at Colegio Imperial de Madrid and University of Alcalá. The recorded working language is Spanish and Latin. Employment is recorded with Colegio Imperial de Madrid. Work by Juan Eusebio Nieremberg is recorded in the collections of Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes.

Portada del libro "Vidas ejemplares y venerables memorias de algunos claros varones de la Compañía de Jesús" (tomo IV). Publicado en español por Juan Eusebio Nieremberg en Madrid, en 1647.
Juan Eusebio Nieremberg y Otin · Ivan Evsebio Nieremberg. Vidas ejemplares y venerables memorias de algunos claros varones de la Compañía de Jesús (tomo cuarto). Madrid: Alonso de Paredes

Portada del libro Historia naturae, maxime peregrinae (libro XVI). Publicado en latín por Juan Eusebio Nieremberg en Amberes, en 1635.
Juan Eusebio Nieremberg y Otin · Ioannis Evsebii Nierembergii. Historia natvrae, maxime peregrinae (libris XVI). Antverpiae: Balthasaris Moreti
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• Honorific Suffix — SJ • Born — 9 September 1595 • Birthplace — Madrid, Spain • Died — 7 April 1658 • Place of death — Madrid, Spain • Fields — Natural history • Workplaces — Colegio Imperial de Madrid • Education — University of Alcalá • Parents — Gottfried Nieremberg and Regina Nieremberg (née Ottin) Juan Eusebio Nieremberg y Ottín (9 September de 1595 – 7 April 1658) was a Spanish Jesuit, polymath and mystic.
Biography
Biography
Nieremberg was born in Madrid to German parents. His father was a Tyrolese, and his mother a Bavarian. He studied the classics at the Royal Court, science at Alcalá and canon law at Salamanca. He joined the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1614, much against the wishes of his father who finally obliged him to leave the novitiate of Villagarcía. He remained firm in his resolution and was permitted to return to Madrid to finish his probation. He studied Greek and Hebrew at the Colegio de Huete, arts and theology at Alcalá, and was ordained in 1623, making his profession in 1633. At the Colegio Imperial de Madrid he taught humanities and natural history for sixteen years and Sacred Scripture for three. As a director of souls he was much sought, being appointed by royal command confessor to the Duchess of Mantua, granddaughter of Philip II. Remarkable for his exemplary life, he was an indefatigable worker, and one of the most prolific writers of his time. Seventy-three printed and eleven manuscript works are attributed to him, of these twenty-four at least are in Latin. His works are distinguished for their erudition, those in Spanish being characterized according to Capmany, by nobility and purity of diction, terse, well-knit phrases, forcible metaphors, and vivid imagery. The Spanish Academy includes his name in the "Diccionario de Autoridades". He was highly esteemed in devout circles as the author of De la afición y amor de Jesus (1630), and De la afición y amor de María (1630), both of which were translated into Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Italian and Latin. These works, together with the Prodigios del amor divino (1641), are now forgotten, but Nieremberg's version (1656) of the Imitation is still a favorite, and his eloquent treatise, De la hermosura de Dios y su amabilidad (1649), is the last classical manifestation of mysticism in Spanish literature. Nieremberg published several books on natural history in which traditional Aristotelian conceptions tended to be replaced by a neoplatonic approach to nature. He was keenly interested in new animal and plant species from America and consulted many manuscript sources coming from across the Atlantic, including Francisco Hernández’s unpublished works on Mexican medicinal plants.
Works
Works
• Illustration — Historia natvrae, maxime peregrinae (libris XVI). 1635. • Illustration — Vidas ejemplares y venerables memorias de algunos claros varones de la Compañía de Jesús (tomo cuarto). 1647. • Obras y Días. Manual de Señores y Principes; en que se Propone con su Pureza y Rigor la Especulación y Ejecución Política, Económica y Particular de Todas las Virtudes (Madrid, 1628) • Centuria de dictámenes prudentes (Quiñones, Madrid, 1641). • Prolusión a la doctrina e historia natural (Madrid, 1629). • Sigalion sive de sapientia mythica (Madrid, 1629; Lyon, 1642) • Curiosa Filosofía y cuestiones naturales (Imprenta del Reino, Madrid, 1630) • Vida del glorioso Patriarca San Ignacio de Loyola (Madrid, 1631) • De adoratione in spiritu et veritate (Amberes, 1631) • De arte voluntatis (Lyon, 1631) • De la afición y amor de Jesús, (1630?; Madrid, 1632) • De la afición y amor de María... (1630?; Madrid, 1632) • Vida Divina y Camino Real de Grande Atajo para la Perfección (Madrid, 1633; 1633) * • Oculta Filosofía, (Barcelona, 1645) • Curiosa y oculta filosofia: primera y segunda parte de las marauillas de la naturaleza, examinadas en varias questiones naturales... Tercera impression añadida por el mismo autor (Alcalá: Imprenta de María Fernández, a costa de Juan Antonio Bonet, 1649). • Libro de la vida de Jesús crucificado, impreso en Jerusalén con su sangre (Barcelona, 1634) • Trophaea mariana seu de victrice misericordia Deiparae, gefolgt von De virginitate S.S. Dei Matris apologetica dissertatio (Amberes, 1638) • Del aprecio y estima de la gracia divina, que nos mereció el Hijo de Dios, con su Preciosa Sangre, y Pasión (Juan Sánchez, Madrid, 1638; Hospital Real y General, Zaragoza, 1640) • Compendio de la vida del V.P. Martin Gutiérrez (Madrid, 1639) • De la diferencia entre lo temporal y lo eterno, y Crisol de Desengaños (Madrid, 1640, 1654; Imprenta Real, Madrid, 1675) • Práctica del Catecismo romano y doctrina cristiana (Diego Díaz de la Carrera, Madrid 1640, 1641; Imp. María de Quiñones, Madrid, 1646) • Vida del dichoso y venerable Padre Marcelo Francisco Mastrilli (Madrid, 1640) • Flores espirituales en que se proponen varios puntos muy provechosos para las almas (Madrid, 1640) • Prodigio del amor divino y finezas de Dios con los hombres (Juan Sánchez, Madrid, 1641). • De la hermosura de Dios y su amabilidad por las Infinitas Perfecciones del Ser Divino (Juan Sánchez, Madrid 1641) • Theopoliticus sive brevis illucidatio et rationale divinorum operum atque providentia humanorum (Amberes, 1641) • Causa y remedio de los males públicos (Francisco de Robles, Madrid, 1642) • Consuelo de las almas escrupulosas y su remedio, (Madrid, 1642). • Dictámenes de espíritu (Puebla de Los Ángeles, 1642) • Tratado sobre el lugar de los Cantares Veni de Libano Explicado de la perfección religiosa (Madrid: Francisco Maroto a costa de Francisco de Robles, mercader de libros, 1642) * • Doctrinae asceticae sive spiritualium institutionum pandectae (Lyon, 1643) • Partida a la eternidad y preparación para la muerte, (Madrid, 1643) • De la devoción y patrocinio de San Miguel (María de Quiñones, Madrid, 1643) • Corona virtuosa y virtud coronada (Francisco Maroto, Madrid, 1643) • Del nuevo misterio de la piedra imßn y nueva descripción del globo terrestre (Madrid, 1643) * * * • Partida a la eternidad y preparación a la muerte (Imprenta Real, Madrid, 1645) * • De la constancia en la virtud y medios de perseverencia (Madrid, 1647) • Epistolas del reverendo Padre Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Religioso de la Compañía de Jesús. Publicadas pour Manuel de Faria y Sousa, Caballero de la Orden de Cristo, y de la Casa Real (por Alonso de Paredes, Madrid, 1649) • Devocionario del santísimo Sacramento (Madrid, 1649). • Cielo estrellado de María (Madrid, 1655) • Obras cristianas del Padre Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Tomo I de sus obras en romance (Imprenta Real, Madrid, 1665) • Obras filosóficas del Padre Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Tomo III (Imprenta Real, Madrid, 1664) • Obras cristianas (Lucas Martín de Hermosilla, Sevilla, 1686) • Vida de Santa Teresa de Jesús (Madrid, 1882)
Eponymy
Eponymy
The Spanish botanists Ruiz and Pavón (Hipólito Ruiz López and Jose Antonio Pavón y Jimenez) named an attractive plant in the tobacco family, Nierembergia, after him in their Flora Peruvianae, et Chilensis Prodromus (1794).
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1595
Juan Eusebio Nieremberg born at Madrid.
1631
Ioannis Eusebii Nierembergii, ex Societate Iesu, De arte voluntatis, libri sex (Juan Eusebio Nieremberg) (1631) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
1658
Juan Eusebio Nieremberg died at Madrid.
1664
Aforismos, o dictámenes del padre Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, de la Compañía de Jesús, recogidos de sus obras, añadidos y divididos... por el mismo autor (1664) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
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- Bibliography of Works by Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Jesuit Polymath of Madrid, 2015
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- Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Jesuit Polymath of Madrid, 2015
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- 2.Capmany y Montpalau, Antonio de. Teatro histórico-crítico de la elocuencia española. V. 271. 1848.
- 3.Nieremberg, Juan Eusebio. 19. 672.
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Juan Eusebio Nieremberg was recorded at birth as Juan Eusebio Nieremberg y Otin. His recorded languages were Spanish and Latin. His recorded confession was Catholicism. Recorded as writer, philosopher, naturalist, mystic and hagiographer.
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