Sebastian Münster
1488
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1552
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
movement: German Renaissance
country of citizenship: Germany, Switzerland
educated at: University of Tübingen
occupation: cartographer, writer, translator, university teacher, cosmographer, Hebraist, mathematician, theologian, publisher, Protestant reformer, geographer, astronomer
position held: rector of the University of Basel
student of: Gregor Reisch
Sebastian Münster (20 January 1488 – 26 May 1552) was a German cartographer and cosmographer. He also was a Christian Hebraist scholar who taught as a professor at the University of Basel. His well-known work, the highly accurate world map, Cosmographia, sold well and went through 24 editions. Its influence was widely spread by a production of woodcuts created of it by a variety of artists. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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