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PEUTINGER KONRAD (1465—1547)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 338 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PEUTINGER KONRAD (1465—1547) , See also:

German humanist and antiquarian, was See also:born at See also:Augsburg. In 1497 he was See also:town clerk of his native See also:place, and was on intimate terms with the See also:emperor See also:Maximilian. He was one of the first to publish See also:Roman See also:inscriptions, and his name remains associated with the famous Tabula peutingeriana (see See also:MAP), a map of the military roads of the western Roman See also:Empire, which was discovered by Konrad See also:Celtes, who handed it over to Peutinger for publication. Peutinger also edited the Historia Gothorum of Jordanes, and the Historic geniis Langobardorum of See also:Paulus Diaconus. The Tabula peutingeriana was first published as a whole by F. de Scheyb (1953); later See also:editions by E. Desjardins (1869–1874) and C. See also:Miller (1888); see also E. Paulus, Erklarung der Peutinger Tafel (1867); and See also:Teuffel-See also:Schwabe, His'. of Roman Literature (Eng. trans., 1900).

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