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Johann von Wowern was statesman, philologist, and lawyer from the Holy Roman Empire. He is known for his 1603 work De Polymathia tractatio: integri operis de studiis veterum , [ 1 ] the first work in Western Europe to use the term " polymath " in its title.
Von Wowern lists erudition, literature, philology, philomathy, and polyhistory as synonyms. The earliest recorded use of the term in the English language is from 1624, in the second edition of The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton ; [ 7 ] the form polymathist is slightly older, first appearing in the Diatribae upon the first part of the ...
Johann von Wowern; Z. Johann Jacob Zimmermann This page was last edited on 19 April 2024, at 19:49 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Johann von Wowern; Z. Johann Gottfried Zeller; Johann Zwelfer This page was last edited on 3 August 2024, at 17:13 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Abdul Qadir Gilani (12th century) theologian and philosopher; Abu al-Qasim Muqane'i (10th century) physician; Abu Dawood (c. 817–889), Islamic scholar; Abu Hanifa (699–767), Islamic scholar
Widukind of Corvey (c. 925 – after 973; German: Widukind von Corvey, in italian Vitichindo Sacco di Corvey, in Latin VVITICHINDI SAXO) was a medieval Saxon chronicler. His three-volume Res gestae Saxonicae sive annalium libri tres is an important chronicle of 10th-century Germany during the rule of the Ottonian dynasty.
Material: Vellum: Size: ≈ 23.5 cm × 16.2 cm × 5 cm (9.3 in × 6.4 in × 2.0 in) Format: One column in the page body, with slightly indented right margin and with paragraph divisions, and often with stars in the left margin; [12] the rest of the manuscript appears in the form of graphics (i.e. diagrams or markings for certain parts related to illustrations), containing some foldable parts
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