biography
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Aventinus
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Latin name of Johannes Thurmayr
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pronunciation:
[aventiynus]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1477–1534)
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| biography:
| Humanist scholar and historian, born in Abensberg (Latin Aventinum), Bavaria, SE Germany. Known as the ‘Bavarian Herodotos’, he taught Greek and mathematics at Kraków, and wrote a history of Bavaria. |
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