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16th-century writers in Latin

  • Nicolaus CopernicusNicolaus Copernicus entered the world on the 19th of February 1473 within the city walls of Toruń. This location sat in Royal Prussia, a region recently…
  • Johannes KeplerJohannes Kepler was born on the 27th of December 1571 in the Free Imperial City of Weil der Stadt. His birth came prematurely, and he claimed to have been…
  • Martin LutherOn the 10th of November 1483, a boy named Martin Luther was born in Eisleben. His father Hans worked copper mines and served on the local council.
  • Thomas MoreThomas More entered the world on the 7th of February 1478 within the City of London. His father Sir John More was a successful lawyer who later became a…
  • John FoxeJohn Foxe was born in Boston, Lincolnshire, England during the year 1516 or 1517. He came from a family that held some local prominence.
  • Francis BaconFrancis Bacon was born on the 22nd of January 1561 at York House near Strand in London. He entered Trinity College at the University of Cambridge on the 5th…
  • Carolus ClusiusCharles de l'Écluse arrived in Marburg during the early 1540s with a stack of legal texts and a father's demand for a career in civil law.
  • ErasmusDesiderius Erasmus was born in Rotterdam on the 27th or the 28th of October, likely around 1466. His parents could not legally marry because his father…
  • William CamdenWilliam Camden was born in London on the 2nd of May 1551. His father Sampson Camden belonged to The Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers.
  • Olaus MagnusOlof Månsson entered the world in Linköping during October 1490. He was born into a family that would soon shape his destiny within the Catholic church…
  • Andreas VesaliusAndries van Wesel was born on the 31st of December 1514 in Brussels. His family had served three generations of Habsburg emperors as physicians and…
  • Conrad CeltesKonrad Bickel stood in the vineyards of Wipfeld near Schweinfurt on the 1st of February 1459. He was born into a family that expected him to become a vintner…
  • Joachim du BellayJoachim du Bellay was born at the Castle of La Turmelière, not far from Liré, near Angers. His father Jean du Bellay served as Lord of Gonnor and stood as…
  • Tycho BraheTyge Ottesen Brahe entered the world on the 14th of December 1546 at Knutstorp Castle, an ancestral seat located north of Svalöv in then Danish Scania.
  • Jan KochanowskiJan Kochanowski entered the world in 1530 at Sycyna, a village near Radom within the Kingdom of Poland. He belonged to the szlachta class, the Polish…
  • Juan Luis VivesOn the 6th of March 1493, a boy named Juan Luis Vives was born in Valencia to a family that had converted from Judaism to Christianity decades before.