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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    about a century after the Fall of Constantinople, by German historian Hieronymus Wolf, who introduced a system of Byzantine historiography in his work Corpus...
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    first applied to the Eastern Roman Empire by the German historian Hieronymus Wolf in 1557, later popularized by French scholars during the 18th century...
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    not by the Latin West, which regarded it as Greek. After its fall, Hieronymus Wolf popularized the usage of "Byzantium". An informal cultural division...
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    by Hieronymus Wolf. This claimed to be based on a heavily corrupted manuscript which required numerous conjectures by a scholarly friend of Wolf, who...
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  • 20 – Jeronymo Osorio, Portuguese historian (born 1506) October 8 – Hieronymus Wolf, German historian (born 1516) November 3 – Jeronimo Zurita y Castro...
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    property of the Counts of Oettingen in 1418. In 1530 the historian Hieronymus Wolf was a clerk at Harburg Castle. After the extinction of the protestant...
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  • and the eastern parts of the Roman Empire really were. The historian Hieronymus Wolf, after the Eastern Roman Empire had ceased to exist, was the first...
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    until it first took its new meaning in 1557 when the German scholar Hieronymus Wolf published his Corpus Historiæ Byzantinæ, a collection of historical...
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  • Roman state as a whole, Byzantium was introduced by the historian Hieronymus Wolf only in 1555, a century after the empire, whose inhabitants called...
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    the city governors. Rainer Stadelmann (1933 – 2019), Egyptologist Hieronymus Wolf (1516 — 1580), Historian & Humanist Wikimedia Commons has media related...
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    Laonikos Chalkokondyles, whose works were widely propagated, notably by Hieronymus Wolf. "Byzantine" was used adjectivally alongside terms such as "Empire...
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    term "Byzantine Greeks" is an exonym applied by later historians like Hieronymus Wolf; "Byzantine" citizens continued to call themselves Romaioi (Romans)...
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  • Medieval Greek language and literature as their objects of research. Hieronymus Wolf (1516–1580) is said to be the "father" of German Byzantism. In France...
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    a century after the fall of Constantinople, when German historian Hieronymus Wolf published his work Corpus Historiæ Byzantinæ, a collection of Byzantine...
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    5 – Matsudaira Shigeyoshi, Japanese general (b. 1493) October 8 – Hieronymus Wolf, German historian (b. 1516) October 26 – Anna of Austria, Queen of...
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    Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, German nobleman (d. 1592) August 13 – Hieronymus Wolf, German historian (d. 1580) September 2 – Francis I, Duke of Nevers...
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    Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, German nobleman (d. 1592) August 13 – Hieronymus Wolf, German historian (d. 1580) September 2 – Francis I, Duke of Nevers...
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  • (New York, 1976). ISBN 0-231-04080-6 Imperii Graeci Historia, ed. Hieronymus Wolf, 1557, in Greek with parallel Latin translation. (PDF of 1593 reprint)...
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    5 – Matsudaira Shigeyoshi, Japanese general (b. 1493) October 8 – Hieronymus Wolf, German historian (b. 1516) October 26 – Anna of Austria, Queen of...
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  • Melanchthon and his circle in a partial edition of Lorenzo Bonincontri. Hieronymus Wolf, a philologist, passed through Wittenberg in the 1540s and was helped...
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