"Johann Jacob Grasser (24 February 1579 – 20 March 1627) was a scholar and polyhistor of Basel.
He studied theology and was active as a poet, in ...
the sciences and in geography. He was Magister Artium and Poeta laureatus in Basel in 1601. He travelled across Switzerland and in Europe during 1603 to 1608. When he was in Nîmes, he wrote a treatise on the Roman antiquities there which was reprinted several times. In 1607, he was given the title of Count Palatine by the Imperial Commissioner in Padua, from which time he styled himself as Ioannes Iacobus Grasserus, Civis Romanus, Comes Palatinus." - (en.wikipedia.org 21.04.2022)
