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Johannes Schöner

1477 - 1547

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Johannes Schöner (16 January 1477, in Karlstadt am Main – 16 January 1547, in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg) (aka, Johann Schönner, Johann Schoener, Jean Schönner, Joan Schoenerus) was a German polymath. It is best to refer to him using the usual 16th-century Latin term "mathematicus", as the areas of study to which he devoted his life were very different from those now considered to be the domain of the mathematician. He was a priest, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, cosmographer, cartographer, mathematician, globe and scientific instrument maker and editor and publisher of scientific texts. In his own time he enjoyed a Europe-wide reputation as an innovative and influential globe maker and cosmographer and as one of the continent's leading and most authoritative astrologers. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johannes Schöner is the 222nd most popular astronomer (up from 238th in 2019), the 2,343rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,796th in 2019) and the 39th most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Johannes Schöner ranks 222 out of 644. Before him are George Ellery Hale, Fred Lawrence Whipple, Martin Schwarzschild, Adalbert Krueger, Heinrich Christian Schumacher, and Henri Debehogne. After him are Peter Andreas Hansen, Antonio de Ulloa, Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin, Horace Parnell Tuttle, Alexis Bouvard, and William Wallace Campbell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1477, Johannes Schöner ranks 7. Before him are Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, Anne of Brittany, Il Sodoma, John III of Navarre, Stephen VIII Báthory, and Juan de Homedes. After him are Malik Muhammad Jayasi, Johannes Aventinus, Jacopo Sadoleto, and Lambert Simnel. Among people deceased in 1547, Johannes Schöner ranks 13. Before him are Sebastiano del Piombo, Pietro Bembo, Saint Cajetan, Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Prussia, Hadım Suleiman Pasha, and Marie of Luxembourg, Countess of Vendôme. After him are Perino del Vaga, Albrecht VII, Duke of Mecklenburg, Konrad Peutinger, Philippa of Guelders, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and Beatus Rhenanus.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johannes Schöner ranks 2,344 out of 7,253. Before him are Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792), Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia (1767), Friedrich Loeffler (1852), Heinrich Eberbach (1895), Johann Jacob Schweppe (1740), and Erich Mühsam (1878). After him are Antonio Rüdiger (1993), Wilhelm Röpke (1899), Anna of Brandenburg (1487), Judith Kerr (1923), Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723), and Uli Jon Roth (1954).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Johannes Schöner ranks 39. Before him are Johann Heinrich von Mädler (1794), Tobias Mayer (1723), Andreas Cellarius (1596), Erasmus Reinhold (1511), Martin Schwarzschild (1912), and Heinrich Christian Schumacher (1780). After him are Johannes Fabricius (1587), Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann (1870), Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke (1835), Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834), Gottfried Kirch (1639), and Christine Kirch (1697).

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