Michael Eytzinger

Michaël Eytzinger (Freiherr Michael von Aitzing, or Eitzing) (born ca. 1530 in Obereitzing - died 1598 in Bonn), was an Austrian nobleman, diplomat, historian, and publicist, who first published the principles of a genealogical numbering system of ancestors.

The first Ahnentafel was published in 1590 by Michaël Eytzinger in his Thesaurus principum hac aetate in Europa viventium (Cologne)^[1][2], in which he first illustrated his new functional theory of numeration of ancestors by providing genealogies of thirty-four sovereign houses of Europe.

Eytzinger’s method was used by Jerónimo de Sosa, in his work Noticia de la gran casa de los marqueses de Villafranca in 1676, and was popularized by Stephan Kekulé von Stradonitz in his Ahnentafel-atlas in 1898.

The first ahnentafel, published by Michaël Eytzinger in Thesaurus principum hac aetate in Europa viventium Cologne: 1590, pp. 146-147, in which Eytzinger first illustrates his new functional theory of numeration of ancestors; this schema showing Henry III of France as n° 1, de cujus, with his ancestors in five generations. The remainder of the volume shows 34 additional schemas for rulers and princes of Europe using his new method.

Bibliography

• Novus de Leone Belgico eiusque topographica atque historica descriptione liber. 1583
• Relatio historica. Köln, 1584
• Rerum vaticiniis accommodata historia: das ist eine Hystorische Beschreibung... Köln, 1584
• Bipartita septem temporum historia: das ist historische Beschreybung sieben underscheidlicher Zeiten. Köln, 1586
• Thesaurus principum hac aetate in Europa viventium: quo progenitores eorum... Köln, 1590

References

1. ^ Thesaurus Principum hac Aetate In Europa Viventium, 1591, (Google eBook)(Full Preview)
2. ^ Thesaurus Principum hac aetate in Europa viventium, 1590 (Google Books)(No Preview)

See also

• Leo Belgicus

External links

• The Sosa–Stradonitz System or Ahnentafel Numbering System
• Freiherr Michael von Aitzing (German)

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