Background
He was born in Konstanz (Constance) in 1550 in a Lutheran Protestant family and studied in Strasbourg, Geneva and Padua.
He was born in Konstanz (Constance) in 1550 in a Lutheran Protestant family and studied in Strasbourg, Geneva and Padua.
On Crato"s and Hubert Languet"s recommendation, he became tutor in noble houses. In 1574 he traveled from Vienna to Italy, where he met Jakob Monau and Fabier Ien de Dohna. In 1575 he received his doctorate in Padua.
As a steward, he accompanied the son of Nicholas of Rhediger on the Grand Tour (peregrinatio Academica).
In 1576 he returned to Breslau and became the confidant of bishop Andreas von Jerin. In 1591 Wackenfels was Chancellor of the Upper Silesian provincial team
In 1592 Wackenfels converted to the Catholic faith and in 1594, he was in the Ennoblement. In 1597, he was appointed to the Aulic Council, where he served until 1612, from 1608 as a trainee.
In 1611 he has devoted his friend Johannes Kepler, who dedicated to him his "Strena seu nive sexangula" (From hexagonal snow.
See: Kepler conjecture) (1611).