Juan Eusebio Nieremberg


Juan Eusebio Nieremberg was a Spanish Jesuit and mystic.
Nieremberg was born and died in Madrid, but his parents were German. He studied the classics at the Royal Court, he studied science at Alcalá and canon law at Salamanca.
He joined the Society of Jesus in 1614, and subsequently became lecturer on scripture at the Jesuit seminary in Madrid until his death.
He was highly esteemed in devout circles as the author of De la afición y amor de Jesus, and De la afición y amor de María, both of which were translated into Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Italian and Latin. These works, together with the Prodigios del amor divino, are now forgotten, but Nieremberg's version of the Imitation is still a favorite, and his eloquent treatise, De la hermosura de Dios y su amabilidad, is the last classical manifestation of mysticism in Spanish literature.

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The Spanish botanists Ruiz and Pavón named an attractive plant in the tobacco family, Nierembergia, after him in their Flora Peruvianae, et Chilensis Prodromus.