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Johannes Honter

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Transylvanian Saxon renaissance humanist

ScientistsLived 1498 to 1549 · aged 51
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Johannes Honter was a Transylvanian Saxon, renaissance humanist, Protestant reformer, and theologian.

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Statue of Johannes Honterus in Brașov, by Harro MagnussenStatue of Johannes Honterus in Brașov, by Harro MagnussenHonter's 1546 map Universalis CosmographiaHonter's 1546 map Universalis Cosmographia

Scientists born in the 1490s 6

Garcia de Orta49.9Luca Ghini46.9Hieronymus Bock52.2Lopo Homem43.3Albert Pighius43.1Magdalena Zeger41.1

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Johannes Honter was a Transylvanian Saxon, renaissance humanist, Protestant reformer, and theologian. Honter is best known for his geographic and cartographic publishing activity, as well as for implementing the Lutheran reform in Transylvania and founding the church, which would become the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Romania, after the union of Transylvania with Romania.

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deceased
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Lived 1498 to 1549 · aged 51
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