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Mathematician
and cartographer,
professor, abbot
of the Carthusian
Monastery, Freiburg.
Teacher of Johannes
Eck (1486-1543),
Martin Waldseemüller
(ca. 1470-1520)
and Sebstian
Münster (1488-1552).
Writer of the
'Margarita philosophica',
the oldest printed
encyclopedia,
published for
the first time
in Freiburg
in the year
1503.
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