See also:

• SEBASTIAN
• SEBASTIAN, ST

SEBASTIAN See also:

• MUNSTER
• SEBASTIAN MUNSTER (1489-1552)

MUNSTER (1489-1552)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German geographer, mathematician and Hebraist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• INGELHEIM (Ober-Ingelheim and Nieder-Ingelheim)

Ingelheim in the See also:

• PALATINATE (Ger. Pfalz)

Palatinate . After studying at See also:

• HEIDELBERG

Heidelberg and See also:

• TUBINGEN

Tubingen, he entered the Franciscan See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order, but abandoned it for Lutheranism about 1529 . Shortly afterwards he was appointed See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court preacher at Heidelberg, where he also lectured in See also:

• HEBREW

Hebrew and Old Testament exegesis . From 1536 he taught at See also:

• BASEL (Fr. Bale)
• BASEL (Fr. Belle, but Basle is a wholly erroneous form; Ital. Basilea)
• BASEL, CONFESSION OF
• BASEL, COUNCIL OF

Basel, where he published his Cosmographia universalis in 1544, and where he died of the See also:

• PLAGUE (in Gr. Xotµos; in Lat. pestis, pestilentia)

plague on the 23rd of May 1552 . A See also:

• DISCIPLE

disciple of See also:

• ELIAS, JOHN (1774-1841)

Elias Levita, he was the first German to edit the Hebrew See also:

• BIBLE
• BIBLE, ENGLISH

Bible (2 vols., fol., Basel, 1534-1535); this edition was accompanied by a new Latin See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation and a large number of annotations . He published more than one Hebrew See also:

• GRAMMAR (from Lat. grammatica, sc. ars; Gr. ypaµ)

grammar, and was the first to prepare a Grammatica chaldaica (Basel, 1527) . His lexicographical labours included a Dictionarium chaldaicum (1527), and a Dictionarium trilingue, of Latin, See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek and Hebrew (1530) . But his most important See also:

• WORK

work was his Cosmographia, which also appeared in German as a Beschreibung aller See also:

• LANDER, RICHARD LEMON (1804–1834)

Lander, the first detailed, scientific and popular description of the See also:

• WORLD

world in See also:

• MUNSTER
• MUNSTER, SEBASTIAN (1489-1552)

Munster's native See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language, as well as a supreme effort of See also:

• GEOGRAPHICAL

geographical study and literature in the See also:

• REFORMATION
• REFORMATION, THE

Reformation See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period . In this Munster was assisted by more than one See also:

• HUNDRED

hundred and twenty collaborators . The most valued edition of the Cosmographia or Beschreibung is that of 155o, especially prized for its portraits and its See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city and See also:

• COSTUME
• COSTUME (through the Fr. costume, from Ital. costume, Late Lat. costuma, a contracted form of Lat. consuetudinem, ace. of consuetudo, custom, habit, manner, &c.)

costume pictures . Besides the See also:

• WORKS

works mentioned above we may See also:

• NOTICE

notice Munster's Germaniae descriptio of 153o, his Novus orbis of 1532, his Mappa Eurepae of 1536, his Rhaetia of 1538, his See also:

• EDITIONS

editions of See also:

• SOLINUS, GAIUS JULIUS

Solinus, See also:

• MELA, POMPONIUS (ft. c. A.D. 43)

Mela and See also:

• PTOLEMY (CLAUDIUS PTOLEMAEUS)

Ptolemy in 1538–154o and among non-geographical See also:

• TREATISES

treatises his Horologiographia, 1531, on dialling (see See also:

• DIAL

DIAL), his Organum uranicum of 1536 on the planetary motions, and his Rudimenta mathematica of 1551 . His published maps numbered 142 .

See V . Hantzsch, See also:

• SEBASTIAN
• SEBASTIAN, ST

Sebastian Munster (1898), in vol. xviii. of the Publications of the Royal Society of Sciences of See also:

• SAXONY
• SAXONY (Ger. Provinz Sachsen)

Saxony, See also:

• HISTORICAL

Historical-Philological See also:

• SECTION
• SECTION (Lat. sectio, cutting, secare, to cut)

Section) .