A few years later, he was nearly killed while passing through war zones under Protestant control on his way to Heiligenstadt, where he was to study languages and "physical curiosities" as well as teach grammar. In 1621 Kircher was displaced from his lessons at Paderborn when Christian the Younger of Brunswick, a brutal Protestant military leader, brought troops into the principality. Throughout his education, the Thirty Years' War (1618-48) and its attendant violence between Protestants and Catholics created problems for the young Jesuit. Until he was ordained as a priest in 1628, he studied at various Jesuit institutions, often teaching a variety of subjects as well. He selected the Society of Jesus for their intense focus on academics and entered the Jesuit order circa 1616. Just as his five elder brothers had done, Athanasius joined a religious order. His father was a scholar of philosophy and theology who briefly took a position as a councilor and bailiff that he eventually lost due to political upheaval after this, his focus returned to scholarship and his family. Kircher was born during the feast of Saint Athanasius in either 1601 or 1602, in the town of Geisa in the center of present-day Germany. The science may be bunk, but Kircher's superhuman curiosity, sensational imagination, and eclectic range of interests make him an enduring figure of interest. Although his star fell even before his death, Kircher's peculiar theories and the bizarre and striking engravings that illustrate them have survived into the present. In his long life he published about forty books and became an intellectual celebrity. He taught and studied a wide range of topics, including numerous languages, grammar, mathematics, physics, ethics, Egyptology (a field he helped to create), geology, music, cartography, optics, and so much more. Schmidt), a spirited polymath whose outlandish claims and pursuits continue to fascinate to this day, even as most of his ideas have been discredited. These are just a handful of the more fantastic notions put forth by Jesuit priest and scholar Athanasius Kircher, "the last Renaissance man" (per Edward W. Mermaids and griffins rode in Noah's Ark alongside the other pairs of animals. Networks of fire and water course through the hollowed out spaces inside the earth. Atlantis is real and located in the North Atlantic, right in between Spain and the New World. Certain creatures, such as insects, can be spontaneously created from non-living matter. Musical harmony is but an echo of the harmony that exists out in the cosmos. His works, all published in Penguin Classics, include Amores, a collection of short love poems Heroides, verse-letters written by mythological heroines to their lovers Ars Amatoria, a satirical handbook on love and Metamorphoses, his epic work that has inspired countless writers and artists through the ages.Athanasius Kircher Dragons and giants have dwelled within the earth. Coming from a wealthy Roman family and seemingly destined for a career in politics, he held minor official posts before leaving public service to write, becoming the most distinguished poet of his time. Ovid (43BC-18AD) was born at Sulmo (Sulmona) in central Italy. While in exile he wrote Tristia, Ibis and the Epistulae ex Ponto which consists of letters appealing for help in his efforts to be recalled to Rome. In 8 AD Ovid fell out of favour with the Emperor Augustus due to a ' carmen et error' ('a poem and a mistake') and was banished to what is now Romania.
These were followed by his two epic poems the Fasti and the Metamorphoses. The Ars Amatoria ( The Art of Love) and the Remedia Amoris ( The Cure for Love) were probably written between 2 BC and 2 AD. His earliest surviving work is the collection of love poems called the Amores, which was followed by the Heroides. He was educated in Rome and worked as a public official before taking up poetry full-time. Publius Ovidius Naso was born in Italy on 20 March 43 BC.
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