His main geographical treatise, Schondia, was published under the title Quae intus continentur Syria, Palestina, Arabia, Aegyptus, Schondia, Holmiae... at
Strasbourg in 1532.[4] He was also a publisher of maps where he influenced
Gerardus Mercator, who mentioned Ziegler's maps contained numerous inconsistencies and errors.[2]
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abCrane, Nicholas (2002). Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 71, 74, 84–86.
^Image; Ludwig Benesch recognized the figure of Peter in Huber's Allegory of the cross as a portrait also of Ziegler. (Ludwig Baldass and Otto Benesch, "A Newly Discovered Portrait by Wolf Huber" The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs40 No. 231 [June 1922], pp. 302-305).