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Regiomontanus
Johannes Müller von Königsberg (6 June 1436 – 6 July 1476), better known as Regiomontanus (), was a mathematician, astrologer and astronomer of the German Renaissance, active in Vienna, Buda and Nuremberg. His contributions were instrumental in the development of Copernican heliocentrism in the decades following his death.
Sebastian Brant
German humanist and satirist
Johann Reuchlin
German humanist and scholar of Greek and Hebrew (1455-1522)
Johannes Trithemius
German writer
Conrad Celtes
German Renaissance humanist scholar and poet (1459-1508)
Heinrich Kramer
German churchman, inquisitor and withcraft theorist (c. 1430–c. 1505)
Johannes Widmann
German mathematician
Jacob Sprenger
priest from Germany
Johannes Pfefferkorn
German theologian
Konrad Kyeser
German military engineer
Jakob Wimpfeling
Renaissance humanist
Jacob Ziegler
German scholar, humanist and theologian (c.1470/71—1549)
Johannes von Gmunden
German astronomer
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German theologian
Elisabeth of Lorraine
German countess and pioneer of the prose novel
Hieronymus Brunschwig
German physician
Hans Folz
German artist, singer, and poet. He was also a noted dramtist, who began his career as a barber
Matthew of Cracow
German-Polish theologian (c. 1355 – 5. 3. 1410)
Heinrich Steinhöwel
German scholar
Clara Hätzlerin
German writer
Nicolaus Germanus
German cartographer (1420–1490)
Johannes Engel
German astronomer and physician
John of Falkenberg
theologian and writer
Johann Heynlin
German humanist
Hermann Bote
German writer (1450-1520)
Johannes Tolhopff
German astrologist
Wenzel Faber
Bohemian astrologer
Georgius de Hungaria
Ottoman escapee slave
Johannes Hartlieb
German physician
Bartholomäus Metlinger
German physician of the late Middle Ages