Jeronimo de Sosa
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Jerónimo de Sosa also known as Hieronymus, Jerome or Geronimo de Sosa, was a 17th century Spanish
Franciscan
friar
and a genealogist who developed a genealogical numbering system of ancestors.
Sosa was a lector
of theology
at the royal monastery of Santa Maria La Nova
in Naples
. In his work Noticia de la gran casa de los marqueses de Villafranca in 1676, he used and popularized a method based on the numbering system first published by Michaël Eytzinger
in 1590.
Sosa's method was popularized on a large scale by Stephan Kekulé von Stradonitz
in his Ahnentafel-atlas in 1898 and became known as Ahnentafel
or the Sosa–Stradonitz Method.
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
Franciscan
Franciscan
Most Franciscans are members of Roman Catholic religious orders founded by Saint Francis of Assisi. Besides Roman Catholic communities, there are also Old Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, ecumenical and Non-denominational Franciscan communities....
friar
Friar
A friar is a member of one of the mendicant orders.-Friars and monks:...
and a genealogist who developed a genealogical numbering system of ancestors.
Sosa was a lector
Lector
Lector is a Latin term for one who reads, whether aloud or not. In modern languages the word has come to take various forms, as either a development or a loan, such as , , and . It has various specialized uses:...
of theology
Theology
Theology is the systematic and rational study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truths, or the learned profession acquired by completing specialized training in religious studies, usually at a university or school of divinity or seminary.-Definition:Augustine of Hippo...
at the royal monastery of Santa Maria La Nova
Santa Maria La Nova
Santa Maria la Nova is a church in Naples, southern Italy. It is located on the site given to the Franciscan order in 1279 when Charles of Anjou decided to build his Castel Nuovo , or Maschio Angioino, on the grounds of the order's original monastery, whence the name Nova .The "new" church was...
in Naples
Naples
Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...
. In his work Noticia de la gran casa de los marqueses de Villafranca in 1676, he used and popularized a method based on the numbering system first published by Michaël Eytzinger
Michael Eytzinger
Michaël Eytzinger , was an Austrian nobleman, diplomat, historian, and publicist, who first published the principles of a genealogical numbering system of ancestors.The first Ahnentafel was published in 1590 by Michaël Eytzinger in his Thesaurus principum hac aetate in Europa...
in 1590.
Sosa's method was popularized on a large scale by Stephan Kekulé von Stradonitz
Stephan Kekulé von Stradonitz
Stephan Kekulé von Stradonitz , was a German lawyer, heraldist and genealogist who popularized a genealogical numbering system of ancestors....
in his Ahnentafel-atlas in 1898 and became known as Ahnentafel
Ahnentafel
An ahnentafel or ahnenreihe is a genealogical numbering system for listing a person's direct ancestors in a fixed sequence of ascent...
or the Sosa–Stradonitz Method.