Johannes Aventinus ( 1477 – 1534 ) is the city's most famous son, the founder of the study of history in Bavaria.

Aventinus, whose name was real name is Johann or Johannes Turmair ( Aventinus being the Latin name of his birthplace ) wrote the Annals of Bavaria, a valuable record of the early history of Germany and the first major written work on the subject.

* Johannes Aventinus ( 1477 – 1534 ): Bavarian historian

The phrase enkyklios paideia ( ἐγκύκλιος παιδεία ) was used by Plutarch and the Latin word Enciclopedia came from him. The first work titled in this way was the Encyclopedia orbisque doctrinarum, hoc est omnium artium, scientiarum, ipsius philosophiae index ac divisio written by Johannes Aventinus in 1517.

* January 9 – Johannes Aventinus, Bavarian historian and philologist ( b. 1477 )

* July 4 – Johannes Aventinus, Bavarian historian and philologist ( d. 1534 )

In the early 16th century, German chronicler Johannes Aventinus placed him in the reign of Ingaevone, in ca.

A legend recorded by Johannes Aventinus ( fl.

The Bavarian historian Johannes Aventinus will write in the 16th century that in 805 the Bratislava Castle was repaired during the reign of its lord, Prince Vratislav, on the place of the ruins of an old Roman settlement allegedly called Pisonium, and was named Wratisslaburgium ; if this is true, Prince Vratislav is, after Samo, only the second Slavic historical figure known from the Middle Danube region.

Among its most famous instructors in the late 15th century were the poet Conrad Celtes, the Hebrew scholar Johannes Reuchlin, and the Bavarian historian Johannes Thurmair ( also known as " Johannes Aventinus ").

This sparked interest among German humanists, including Conrad Celtes, Johannes Aventinus, and Ulrich von Hutten.

Later historians ( e. g. Johannes Aventinus ) managed to furnish numerous further details, including the assertion by James Anderson that this Tuiscon was in fact none other than the biblical Ashkenaz, son of Gomer.

# Johannes Aventinus ( Johann Georg Turmair ) – Bavarian scholar and historian.

* Johannes Aventinus, Bavarian historian and philologist

Johannes Aventinus

Johann Georg Turmair ( Thurmayr ) or Johannes Aventinus ( July 4, 1477 – January 9, 1534 ) was a Bavarian humanist historian and philologist.

Possibly from this weapon arose an attribution of the invention of the battle-axe to the Amazons by medieval and Renaissance authors ( e. g. Johannes Aventinus ), and a ( modern ) association of the Amazons with the Labrys.

The German historian Johannes Aventinus disputed that Trebeta ( whom he called Trever or Treiber ) was the son of Ninus, claiming that he was in fact a son of Ninus ' contemporary Mannus, who was supposedly the second king of Germany.

The German chronicler Johannes Aventinus ( ca.

The Swede Johannes Magnus around the same time as Aventinus, wrote that Gothus or Gethar, also known as Gogus or Gog, was one of Magog's sons, who became first king of the Goths ( Geats ) in Gothaland.

In addition, Tuiscon, whom Pseudo-Berossus calls the fourth son of Noah, and says ruled first in Germany / Scythia, was identified by later historians ( e. g. Johannes Aventinus ) as none other than Ashkenaz, Gomer's son.

The Astronomer ( Vermeer ) | The Astronomer by Johannes Vermeer ( c. 1668 )

* De triumphis ecclesiae, a Latin epic in elegiac metre, written c. 1250 by Johannes de Garlandia, an English grammarian who taught at the universities of Toulouse and Paris.

The guitar player ( c. 1672 ), by Johannes Vermeer

Giovanni d ' Andrea or Johannes Andreæ, ( c. 1270 / 1275 – 1348 ) was an Italian expert in canon law, the most renowned and successful canonist of the later Middle Ages.

File: Gutenberg. jpg | Johannes Gutenberg ( c. 1398 – 1468 )

His siblings were August ( 1872 – 1952 ), Johannes ( 1873 – 1937 ), Lilli ( 1879 – 1950 ) and Elisabeth, who died shortly after birth in c. 1880.

The second half of the century saw no composers equal in stature, but in the early 17th century Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger ( c. 1580 – 1651 ) and Alessandro Piccinini ( 1566 – 1638 ) revolutionized the instrument's technique and Kapsberger, possibly, influenced the keyboard music of Frescobaldi.

In his History of the World ( written c. 1616 ) Sir Walter Raleigh erroneously asserted ( attributing the information to Johannes Nauclerus c. 1425-1510 ), that Nineveh had originally had the name Campsor before Ninus supposedly rebuilt it.

Earlier, the guilds of writers had denounced the printing press as " the Devil's Invention ", and were responsible for a 53-year lag between its invention by Johannes Gutenberg in Europe in c. 1440 and its introduction to the Ottoman society with the first Gutenberg press in Istanbul that was established by the Sephardic Jews of Spain in 1493 ( who had migrated to the Ottoman Empire a year earlier, escaping from the Spanish Inquisition of 1492.

File: Johannes Vermeer ( 1632-1675 )-The Girl With The Pearl Earring ( 1665 ). jpg | Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer, c. 1665.

* Ocker, Christopher, Johannes Klenkok: a friar's life, c. 1310 – 1374, American Philosophical Society, 1993, ISBN 0-87169-835-8

* The cryptographic text Steganographia, written by Johannes Trithemius c. 1499, is published in Frankfurt.

* June 7 – Johannes Matelart, composer ( b. c. 1538 )

* March 25 – Johannes Nucius, German composer ( b. c. 1556 )

* probable – Johannes Martini, Flemish composer ( b. c. 1440 )

* December 20 – Johannes Lupi, Flemish composer ( b. c. 1506 )

** Johannes Tinctoris, Flemish composer and music theorist ( b. c. 1435 )

* February 6 – Johannes Ockeghem, Flemish composer ( b. c. 1410 )

* Publication of Johannes de Sacrobosco's De sphaera mundi ( written c. 1230 ) in Ferrara, the first printed astronomical book.

Jan van Eyck ( or Johannes de Eyck ) (; before c. 1395 – before c. 9 July 1441 ) was a Flemish painter active in Bruges and is generally considered one of the most significant Northern European painters of the 15th century.

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer ( c. 1665 ).

The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer ( c. 1658 ).