Jeremias Drexel

(also known as Hieremias Drexelius or Drechsel) (15 August 1581–19 April 1638) was a Jesuit writer of devotional literature and a professor of the humanities and rhetoric.

He served for 23 years as court preacher in Munich to Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria and his wife Elizabeth of Lorraine.

He taught the Jesuit seminarians at Dillingen as professor of rhetoric, and then for 23 years he was a court preacher to Maximilian I, the prince-elector of Bavaria in the Holy Roman Empire.

Drexel was fond of pictorial symbols to make his teachings concrete and thus most of his books are elegantly illustrated.

His writings on the eternal truth, the virtues and the Christian exemplar were popular; hundreds of thousands of copies of his works were printed.