Johann Boemus
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Johann Boemus (c.1485-1535) was a German humanist, canon of Ulm Cathedral, traveller, and Hebraist. He was compiler and author of the first ethnographic compendium of the Early Modern period in Europe.
His Omnium Gentium Mores, Leges et Ritus was published in 1520. There were later editions, accumulating related treatises by other scholars. It influenced Sebastian Muenster's Cosmography, and helped inspire the Hauptchronik of Sebastian Franck
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There were English translations by William Waterman (1555) (The Fardle of Facions) and Edward Aston (1611). This book is cited as the first scientific approach to ethnography available in English.
His Omnium Gentium Mores, Leges et Ritus was published in 1520. There were later editions, accumulating related treatises by other scholars. It influenced Sebastian Muenster's Cosmography, and helped inspire the Hauptchronik of Sebastian Franck
Sebastian Franck
Sebastian Franck was a 16th century German freethinker, humanist, and radical reformer.Franck was born about 1499 at Donauwörth, Bavaria. Because of this he styled himself Franck von Word...
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There were English translations by William Waterman (1555) (The Fardle of Facions) and Edward Aston (1611). This book is cited as the first scientific approach to ethnography available in English.