Hieronymus Wolf (13 August 1516 – 8 October 1580) was a sixteenth-century German historian and humanist, most famous for introducing a system of Roman...
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bishop Hieronymus Vietor (c. 1480–1546/47), printer in Vienna and Kraków Hieronymus Wierix, Flemish engraver Hieronymus Wolf, German historian Hieronymus Georg...
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Empire, a term never used by the Empire, invented by German historian Hieronymus Wolf. His more immediate political legacy was that he replaced Diocletian's...
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The Boy Who Cried Wolf is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 210 in the Perry Index. From it is derived the English idiom "to cry wolf", defined as "to give...
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Roman state as a whole, Byzantium was introduced by the historian Hieronymus Wolf only in 1555, a century after the last remnants of the empire, whose...
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Baron Munchausen (redirect from Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Munchhausen)
Travels and Campaigns in Russia. The character is loosely based on baron Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von Münchhausen. Born in Bodenwerder, Hanover...
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discipline's founder in Germany is considered to be the philologist Hieronymus Wolf (1516–1580), a Renaissance Humanist. He gave the name "Byzantine" to...
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for his 1557 revised version of Eucharius Rösslin's medicinal plant Hieronymus Wolf (1516-1580), historian and humanist, He coined the term Byzantium Heinrich...
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(New York: St. Martin's Minotaru, 2002). Imperii Graeci Historia, ed. Hieronymus Wolf, 1557, in Greek with parallel Latin translation. (PDF of 1593 reprint)...
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very faulty. This was followed by editions by Jakob Schegk (1554) and Hieronymus Wolf (1560). John Upton's edition published 1739–41 was an improvement on...
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