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    portable watch was made in 1511 by an influential figure of the time. Johannes Cochläus, humanist and contemporary of Peter Henlein, he wrote in the appendix...
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    Johann Cochlaeus (Cochläus) (1479 – 10 January 1552) was a German humanist, music theorist, and controversialist. Originally Johann Dobneck, he was born...
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    demolished in 1896 when Bethmannstrasse was built. While Luther’s opponent Johannes Cochläus, preached against him, Frankfurt patricians such as Philipp Fürstenberger...
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    His fame (as the inventor of the watch) is based on a passage by Johann Cochläus in 1511. Since then, Henlein is generally known as the inventor of the...
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