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Also Known As Johannes Turmair
Born July 4, 1477
Died January 9, 1534 (aged 56) • Regensburg • Germany
Subjects Of Study Bavaria

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Beatus Rhenanus
German humanist and author
Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli
Italian statesman and writer
Guicciardini, Francesco
Francesco Guicciardini
Italian historian and statesman
Flavio Biondo
Italian historian
João de Barros
João de Barros
Portuguese historian
Polydore Vergil
British humanist
Albertino Mussato
Italian writer and statesman
Jan van Hout
Dutch scholar
Hector Boece.
Hector Boece
Scottish historian
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
German philosopher
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German philosopher and mathematician
Louis IV
Holy Roman emperor
Philipp Melanchthon
Philipp Melanchthon
German theologian
Leopold Ranke
Leopold von Ranke
German historian
Theodor Mommsen.
Theodor Mommsen
German historian, philologist, and legal scholar
Henry III, detail of a sandstone figure from his tomb, 1227; in the Cathedral of St. Blasius, Brunswick
Henry III
duke of Bavaria and Saxony
Adolf von Harnack
Adolf von Harnack
German theologian and church historian
Freiherr von Pufendorf
Samuel, baron von Pufendorf
German jurist and historian
Maximilian I
duke of Bavaria
Strauss, Franz Josef
Franz Josef Strauss
German politician

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