Athanasius Kircher

Athanasius Kircher, S.J.
Portrait o Kircher at age 53 frae Mundus Subterraneus (1664)
Releegion	Roman Catholicism
Order	Society o Jesus
Personal
Born	2 May 1601 Geisa, Imperial Abbey o Fulda, Haly Roman Empire
Dee'd	27/28 November 1680 Roum, Papal States
Religious career
Warks	Priest, scholar an scientist
Ordination	1628

Athanasius Kircher, S.J. (sometimes erroneously spelled Kirchner; 1602–1680) wis a 17t-century German Jesuit scholar an polymath who published aroond 40 major wirks, maist notably in the fields o comparative releegion, geology, an medicine.