Juan Eusebio Nieremberg
Juan Eusebio Nieremberg is a Jésuite and Spanish Naturaliste , born in 1595 with Madrid and dead the April 7th 1658 in this same city.
Its family is originating in the the Tyrol. It joined the Society of Jesus in 1614. It is initially sent by its superiors in to Alcarria (in the News-Castille). There, he discovers the study of the animals and the plants. The company recalls it to Madrid where he teaches the Natural history with the seminar of Madrid. It is reached of paralysis in 1642.
Its mystical work is very estimated excessively pious people of its time. It makes appear 51 works. Among those, it is necessary some to quote of it two of 1630, Of the afición there amor of Jesus and Of the afición there amor of María , which are translated into Arab, in French, in Dutch, German, Italian and Latin. These works, like Prodigios LED amor divino (1641), are forgotten today, but its version, gone back to 1656, of the Imitation , like its treaty on the eloquence, Of will hermosura of Dios known there amabilidad (1649), are often quoted in the Spanish religious works.
It makes appear a compilation on the natural history of Americas and Asia: In quibus rarissima Naturae arcana, etiam astronomica… . Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) comments on it in these terms:
One notices there much superstition and little criticism; the author enters there discussions metaphysics, which are due to the ideas of the Middle Ages, dominant still at that time, especially in the colleges of the Jesuits. Nevertheless there are interesting observations on the animals and new plants. Thus, one sees there the sarigue, animal which carries its small in a pocket; the viscache, large rodent of the size of the hare, and which is equipped with a long tail like that of a cat; one finds there the coendou, species of porcupine with fascinating tail. Nierembergt did not only take the figures of the handwritten authors, it still borrowed those of Clusius; but I suspect that the majority of its figures are drawn from the manuscripts of Hernandez. | History of the natural science , T. II, Fort, Masson and Co, 1841.
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