Paul Hentzner

As a tutor of the young Silesian nobleman Christoph von Rehdiger (1579-1636) he traveled with this as of May 1596 Switzerland, France, England and Italy, and returned in 1600 Tyrol back to Silesia.

Work

Published in 1612 in Nuremberg Hentzner a travelogue in Latin: Itinerarium Germaniae, Galliae, Angliae, Italiae, cum Indice locorum, Rerum atque verborum.

Horace Walpole was Hentzners England Description translate into English. She appeared in 1797 under the title Hentzner 's Travels in England and became an important source of the Elizabethan age. Hentzner describes in detail the daily life of London's population, customs and his impressions of the court of Queen.