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Johannes Trithemius

1462 - 1516

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Johannes Trithemius (; 1 February 1462 – 13 December 1516), born Johann Heidenberg, was a German Benedictine abbot and a polymath who was active in the German Renaissance as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist. He is considered the founder of modern cryptography (a claim shared with Leon Battista Alberti) and steganography, as well as the founder of bibliography and literary studies as branches of knowledge. He had considerable influence on the development of early modern and modern occultism. His students included Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa and Paracelsus. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johannes Trithemius is the 171st most popular mathematician (down from 144th in 2019), the 946th most popular biography from Germany (down from 884th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular German Mathematician.

Johannes Trithemius is most famous for his book Polygraphiae which is a book about cryptography.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Johannes Trithemius ranks 171 out of 1,004. Before him are Jost Bürgi, James Joseph Sylvester, Menelaus of Alexandria, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Carl David Tolmé Runge, and Joseph Bertrand. After him are Wang Chong, Jean-Pierre Serre, Vladimir Arnold, Mary Jackson, John Pell, and Felix Hausdorff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1462, Johannes Trithemius ranks 5. Before him are Louis XII of France, Piero di Cosimo, Pietro Pomponazzi, and Joanna la Beltraneja. After him are Mihnea cel Rău, John de la Pole, 1st Earl of Lincoln, Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Pietro Lando, and Edzard I, Count of East Frisia. Among people deceased in 1516, Johannes Trithemius ranks 8. Before him are Ferdinand II of Aragon, Giovanni Bellini, Vladislaus II of Hungary, Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours, Juan Díaz de Solís, and Giuliano da Sangallo. After him are John III of Navarre, Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghuri, Jacopo de' Barbari, and Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johannes Trithemius ranks 946 out of 7,253. Before him are Helmut Schön (1915), John George III, Elector of Saxony (1647), Erich Priebke (1913), David Fabricius (1564), Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (1635), and Hrotsvitha (935). After him are Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (1336), Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (1557), Helmut Rahn (1929), Herta Oberheuser (1911), Peter Weiss (1916), and Hans-Dietrich Genscher (1927).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Johannes Trithemius ranks 22. Before him are Christopher Clavius (1538), Andrew Wiles (1953), Hermann Weyl (1885), Hermann of Reichenau (1013), Ferdinand von Lindemann (1852), and Carl David Tolmé Runge (1856). After him are Ernst Schröder (1841), Maria Reiche (1903), Thomas Abbt (1738), Robert Aumann (1930), Ernst Zermelo (1871), and Constantin Carathéodory (1873).

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