Johannes Leunclavius

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Johannes Leunclavius

Turkish history, republishing and annotating Ottoman sources. He also edited Xenophon, Cassius Dio
, and other classical authors.

He also published Historiae Musulmanae Turcorum, de monumentis ipsorum exscriptae, libri XVIII.

Leunclavius accompanied the nobleman Heinrich von Lichtenstein on a diplomatic mission to Istanbul, staying there from October 1584 to April 1585.[2]

He was a friend of Friedrich Sylburg, who published his translation of Zosimus.[3]

References

  1. ^ Other name variants: Hans Lewenklaw, Löwenklau, Joannes Leunclavius, John Leunclavius
  2. . Retrieved 2 March 2013.
  3. ^ Philologia Orientalis. Brill Archive. 1976. p. 48. GGKEY:GCEL4PZ88LS. Retrieved 2 March 2013.

Further reading

  • Horawitz A. H. Leunclavius Johannes // Allgemeine deutsche Biographie. Lpz., 1883. Bd. 18. S. 488-493.
  • B. Stolte, "Observations on Joannes Leunclavius (1541-1594) at work", Rechtshistorisches Journal 13 (1994), pp. 219–33.