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Johannes Aventinus

1477 - 1534

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Johann Georg Turmair (or Thurmayr) (4 July 1477 – 9 January 1534), known by the pen name Johannes Aventinus (Latin for "John of Abensberg") or Aventin, was a Bavarian Renaissance humanist historian and philologist. He authored the 1523 Annals of Bavaria, a valuable record of the early history of Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johannes Aventinus is the 216th most popular historian (up from 235th in 2019), the 2,883rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,147th in 2019) and the 27th most popular German Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Johannes Aventinus ranks 216 out of 561. Before him are Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad, Moritz Cantor, Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, Guo Pu, Robert Conquest, and Anthony Blunt. After him are Deborah Lipstadt, Annius of Viterbo, Gerardus Vossius, H. J. R. Murray, Saul Friedländer, and Fritz Fischer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1477, Johannes Aventinus ranks 9. Before him are Il Sodoma, John III of Navarre, Stephen VIII Báthory, Juan de Homedes, Johannes Schöner, and Malik Muhammad Jayasi. After him are Jacopo Sadoleto, and Lambert Simnel. Among people deceased in 1534, Johannes Aventinus ranks 13. Before him are Marcantonio Raimondi, Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Stephen VIII Báthory, Otto Brunfels, Barbara Jagiellon, and Antonio da Sangallo the Elder. After him are Khvandamir, Magdalena of Saxony, and Beatriz Galindo.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johannes Aventinus ranks 2,885 out of 7,253. Before him are Wilhelm Brückner (1884), Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann (1743), Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1704), Hans Thoma (1839), Johann Froben (1460), and Egon Bahr (1922). After him are Nicolas Luckner (1722), Annelie Ehrhardt (1950), Johannes Dieckmann (1893), Christian Louis, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1622), John Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1627), and Hans Cramer (1896).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Johannes Aventinus ranks 27. Before him are Karl Lamprecht (1856), Friedrich Meinecke (1862), Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729), Philipp Spitta (1841), Karl Krumbacher (1856), and Moritz Cantor (1829). After him are Gerardus Vossius (1577), Fritz Fischer (1908), Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim (1701), Hermann Conring (1606), Gustav Hugo (1764), and Gerhard Friedrich Müller (1705).

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