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Aventinus, detail from an engraving by T. Stimmer
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Aventinus

German humanist and historian
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Original name:
Johannes Turmair
Born:
July 4, 1477, Abensberg, Bavaria
Died:
Jan. 9, 1534, Regensburg (aged 56, died on this day)
Subjects Of Study:
Bavaria
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Aventinus (born July 4, 1477, Abensberg, Bavaria—died Jan. 9, 1534, Regensburg) was a humanist and historian sometimes called the “Bavarian Herodotus.” A student at the universities of Ingolstadt, Vienna, Kraków, and Paris, Aventinus served as tutor (1509–17) to the younger brothers of Duke William IV of Bavaria, during which time he published a Latin grammar and a history of the Bavarian dukes. In his famous Annales Boiorum (1517–21; “Bavarian Annals”), his anticlericalism and attachment to the Holy Roman Empire are clearly revealed. Aventinus never fully accepted Protestantism. His sympathy with the reformers and their teachings and his open disapproval of ...(100 of 104 words)

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