Sebastian Münster

Description: (German Cartographer, Cosmographer, and a Christian Hebraist Scholar)
Sebastian Münster was a renowned German cartographer and cosmographer acclaimed for his mastery in geography and mapmaking. Additionally, he was recognized as a distinguished Christian Hebraist scholar and served as a professor at the University of Basel. His notable achievement, the Cosmographia, a highly detailed world map, gained widespread popularity with 24 editions. Münster's impact was augmented by the production of woodcut illustrations by different artists based on his maps, facilitating the dissemination of his precise geographical insights to a broad audience.

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Birthday January 20, 1488 (Aquarius)
Born In Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany
Died on May 26, 1552
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