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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Johann Albrecht Widmannstetter''', also called '''Widmannstadt''', '''Johannes Albertus [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Widmanstadius#Old_English Widmanstadius]''' or '''Widmestadius''', (1506 – 28 March 1557) was a German humanist, orientalist, philologist, and theologian.<br />
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==Life==<br />
Widmannstetter was born in [[Nellingen]]/[[Blaubeuren]] near [[Ulm]]. He studied law, theology and oriental languages in [[Tübingen]]. After 1527, he continued his studies in [[Italy]], in [[Turin]], [[Naples]] and [[Rome]], focusing on the languages of [[Syriac language|Syriac]] and [[Arabic]]. In 1533, Widmannstetter became secretary to [[Pope Clement VII]]. In the same year, he delivered a series of lectures in Rome, outlining [[Nicolaus Copernicus]]' theory to the pope and the cardinals, with which both were impressed.<br />
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Pope Clement VII died in 1534, and was succeeded by [[Pope Paul III]]; Widmannstetter continued as his secretary.<br />
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After 1535, Widmannstetter was secretary of Cardinal [[Nikolaus von Schönberg]]. Impressed by Widmannstetter's lessons on Copernicus' ideas, the Cardinal wrote a letter to Copernicus in 1536, urging him to publish (which he would do only in 1543, shortly before his death).<br />
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The rest of Widmanstetter's career was focussed on [[orientalism]], to which he contributed a great deal, collecting hundreds of manuscripts in [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], [[Arabic language|Arabic]] and [[Syriac language|Syriac]]. Widmannstetter is considered to be a founder of European orientalism. He died in [[Regensburg]], and his personal library was acquired by [[Albert V, Duke of Bavaria]].<br />
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=== Selected work ===<br />
*1541/42: ''Sacrarum ceremoniarum sive rituum ecclesiasticorum sanctae romanae ecclesiae libri tres''<br />
*1543: ''Notae contra Mohammedis dogmata''<br />
*1552: ''Von den geistlichen und weltlichen Wappen eines Ritters'' ([[Dillingen an der Donau|Dillingen]])<br />
*1555: ''Liber sacrosancti Evangelii de Jesu Christo Domino et Deo nostro'' ([[Vienna]])<br />
*1555: ''Syriacae linguae ... prima elementa'' (Vienna); also published in [[Antwerp]] in 1572<br />
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=== Literature ===<br />
*Max Müller (1907): ''Johann Albrecht von Widmanstetter 1506-1557. Sein Leben und Wirken''. Bamberg.<br />
*Hans Striedl (1952): "Die Bücherei des Orientalisten Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter." In: Hans Joachim Kissling (ed.): ''Serta Monacensia''. Leiden, pp.&nbsp;200–244.<br />
*Hans Striedl (1953): D''er Humanist Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter als klassischer Philologe''. In: ''Festgabe der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek für Emil Gratzl''. Wiesbaden. Pages 96–120.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=qZlsDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA22 Retrospective cataloguing in Europe: 15th to 19th century printed materials]. Proceedings of the International Conference, Munich 28th–30th November 1990<br />
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