# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sebastian-munster
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:21:23.763Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/sebastian-munster"
name: "Sebastian Münster"
slug: "sebastian-munster"
description: "Sebastian Münster 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."
tagline: "German cartographer, cosmographer, and scholar (1488–1552)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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birthDate: "1488-01-20"
deathDate: "1552-05-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump