Francysk Skaryna was a Belarusian humanist, physician and translator. He is known to be one of the first book printers in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and in all of Eastern Europe, laying the groundwork for the development of the Belarusian izvod of the Church Slavonic language.
Also inDeutsch
Photos 5
Academics born in the 1480s 6
About this person
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1486 to 1541 · aged 55
Written about in
27 languages
Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.