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MUNSTER, SEBASTIAN (1489-1552)

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MUNSTER, See also:SEBASTIAN (1489-1552) , See also:German geographer, mathematician and Hebraist, was See also:born at See also:Ingelheim in the See also:Palatinate. After studying at See also:Heidelberg and See also:Tubingen, he entered the Franciscan See also:order, but abandoned it for Lutheranism about 1529. Shortly afterwards he was appointed See also:court preacher at Heidelberg, where he also lectured in See also:Hebrew and Old Testament exegesis. From 1536 he taught at See also:Basel, where he published his Cosmographia universalis in 1544, and where he died of the See also:plague on the 23rd of May 1552. A See also:disciple of See also:Elias Levita, he was the first German to edit the Hebrew See also:Bible (2 vols., fol., Basel, 1534-1535); this edition was accompanied by a new Latin See also:translation and a large number of annotations. He published more than one Hebrew See also:grammar, and was the first to prepare a Grammatica chaldaica (Basel, 1527). His lexicographical labours included a Dictionarium chaldaicum (1527), and a Dictionarium trilingue, of Latin, See also:Greek and Hebrew (1530). But his most important See also:work was his Cosmographia, which also appeared in German as a Beschreibung aller See also:Lander, the first detailed, scientific and popular description of the See also:world in Munster's native See also:language, as well as a supreme effort of See also:geographical study and literature in the See also:Reformation See also:period. In this Munster was assisted by more than one See also:hundred and twenty collaborators. The most valued edition of the Cosmographia or Beschreibung is that of 155o, especially prized for its portraits and its See also:city and See also:costume pictures. Besides the See also:works mentioned above we may See also:notice Munster's Germaniae descriptio of 153o, his Novus orbis of 1532, his Mappa Eurepae of 1536, his Rhaetia of 1538, his See also:editions of See also:Solinus, See also:Mela and See also:Ptolemy in 1538–154o and among non-geographical See also:treatises his Horologiographia, 1531, on dialling (see See also:DIAL), his Organum uranicum of 1536 on the planetary motions, and his Rudimenta mathematica of 1551. His published maps numbered 142.

See V. Hantzsch, Sebastian Munster (1898), in vol. xviii. of the Publications of the Royal Society of Sciences of See also:

Saxony, See also:Historical-Philological See also:Section).

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