Salomon Schweigger

Salomon Schweigger (also spelled Solomon Schweiger) (30 March 1551 – 21 June 1622) was a German Lutheran theologian, minister, anthropologist and orientalist of the 16th century.

[3] He traveled as a Habsburgian envoy to Constantinople[4] with an Austrian delegation from Vienna on a diplomatic mission of Emperor Rudolf II to Sultan Murad III.

In 1589, Heinrich Hermann Baron Schutzbar von Milchling, appointed Schweigger to be patron of the parish of Wilhermsdorf in Middle Franconia.

His account of his years spent in the Balkans, Turkey and the Middle East would later gain fame in his "Ein newe Reiss Beschreibung aus Teutschland Nach Constantinopel und Jerusalem", published in 1608.

Several of his sketches appeared centuries later in Kiril Petkov's 1997 book Infidels, Turks, and Women: The South Slavs in the German Mind, ca.

He was first married to Susanna Michael (d. 1585 in Grötzingen) from Memmingen, who in 1583 gave birth to his first son, Immanuel,[2] who became the father of the Nuremberg sculptor, Georg Schweigger.