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Portrait of Sebastian Münster by Christoph Amberger, c. 1552

Sebastian Münster (20 January 1488 – 26 May 1552)

cosmographer. He also was a Christian Hebraist scholar who taught as a professor at the University of Basel. His well-known work, the highly accurate world map, Cosmographia, sold well and went through 24 editions. Its influence was widely spread by a production of woodcuts created of it by a variety of artists.[2]

Life

Münster's Cosmographia

He was born in

Ingelheim, near Mainz, the son of Andreas Münster. His parents and other ancestors were farmers.[1][3]

In 1505, he entered the

Elias Levita, he edited the Hebrew Bible (2 vols. fol., Basel, 1534–1535), accompanied by a Latin translation and a large number of annotations. He was the first German to produce an edition of the Hebrew Bible.[6]

He published more than one Hebrew grammar, and was the first to prepare a Grammatica Chaldaica (Basel, 1527). His lexicographical labours included a Dictionarium Chaldaicum (1527), and a Dictionarium trilingue for Latin, Greek, and Hebrew in 1530.[6]

He released a Mappa Europae (map of Europe) in 1536. In 1537, he published a Rabbinical translation of the

Hans Rudolph Manuel Deutsch, and David Kandel), in addition to including the first to introduce "separate maps for each of the four continents known then – America, Africa, Asia and Europe."[8]
It was most important in reviving geography in 16th-century Europe. The last German edition was published in 1628, long after his death.

Münster was also known as translator of the Hebrew Bible (Hebraica Biblia). His edition was published in two volumes (1546) in Basel. The first volume contains the books from Genesis to 2 Kings, following the order of the Masoretic codices. The second volume contains The Prophets (Major and Minor), The Psalms, Job, Proverb, Daniel, Chronicles, and the Five Scrolls (The Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes and Esther).

His Rudimenta Mathematica was published in Basel in 1551.[5]

He died at

German people.[6]

Gallery

Several paintings with oil on canvas, woodcuts and copper etchings depict Sebastian Münster, by Hans Holbein d. J. (Basel, c. 1530), Willem de Haen (1615), as rector of the University of Basel (by Christoph Amberger, um 1547), and on the 100-DM-bill as used 1962 to 1991.

  • Statue of Sebastian Münster in front of St. Remigius Church, Ingelheim
    Statue of Sebastian Münster in front of St. Remigius Church,
    Ingelheim
  • Cover of first edition of Cosmographia
    Cover of first edition of Cosmographia
  • His home town Ingelheim in Cosmographia
    His home town Ingelheim in Cosmographia
  • Portrait of Sebastian Münster, edition of 1628
    Portrait of Sebastian Münster, edition of 1628
  • Europa regina in Münster's "Cosmographia", 1570.
    Europa regina in Münster's "Cosmographia", 1570.
  • Old 100 DM banknote, 1962–1991, depicting Münster.
    Old 100 DM banknote, 1962–1991, depicting Münster.
  • Sebastian Münster, Biblia Hebraica: Latin translation of the Hebrew Bible printed by Heinrich Petri and Michael Isengrin, 1546, Basel, in the collection of the Jewish Museum of Switzerland.
    Sebastian Münster, Biblia Hebraica: Latin translation of the Hebrew Bible printed by Heinrich Petri and Michael Isengrin, 1546, Basel, in the collection of the Jewish Museum of Switzerland.
  • A 1552 map showing the Pinsk Marshes (Sarmatica palus) next to Pinsk.
    A 1552 map showing the Pinsk Marshes (Sarmatica palus) next to Pinsk.

References

  1. ^ a b c Miles Baynton-Williams. "MapForum Issue 10". Mapforum.com. Archived from the original on 14 August 2012. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
  2. ^ Brown, Kevin J. Maps Through the Ages. White Star Publishers. p. 26.
  3. ^
    ISBN 3-11-013852-2
    .
  4. ^ "Mathematics Genealogy Project". Genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
  5. ^ a b c Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Münster, Sebastian" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  6. ^ a b c Baynes, T. S.; Smith, W. R., eds. (1884). "Münster, Sebastian" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (9th ed.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
  7. New International Encyclopedia
    (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
  8. ^ National Library Board of Singapore. Visualising Space: Maps of Singapore and the Region. Collections from the National Library and National Archives of Singapore, 2014, p. 42

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