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Also Known As	Lucas Holstenius
Born	September 27, 1596 • Hamburg • Germany
Died	February 2, 1661 (aged 64) • Rome • Italy

Bettina von Arnim

Bettina von Arnim

German writer

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Beatus Rhenanus

German humanist and author

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Joachim Camerarius

German scholar and theologian

Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus, shown in dark robes and cap, writing with a quill at a desk, after Quinten Massijs, oil on panel, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Erasmus

Dutch humanist

Engraving of Petrarch wearing a laurel wreath and a robe, holding a closed book in his left hand.

Petrarch

Italian poet

Poggio Bracciolini, Gian Francesco

Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini

Italian scholar

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Titus Pomponius Atticus

Roman author

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Maximus Margunios

Greek Orthodox bishop

Justus Lipsius, oil painting by an unknown artist, 1585; in the Musee Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp

Justus Lipsius

Belgian scholar

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Fra Giovanni Giocondo

Italian architect

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Christiern Pedersen

Danish humanist

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Pierre-Emmanuel-Albert, baron du Casse

French historian

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Joachim Vadianus

Swiss humanist

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Wilhelm Carl Grimm

German author, folklorist, and philologist

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Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm

German author, folklorist, and philologist

Karl Marx

Karl Marx

German philosopher

Philipp Melanchthon

Philipp Melanchthon

German theologian

Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann

German composer

Theodor Mommsen.

Theodor Mommsen

German historian, philologist, and legal scholar

Max Müller

Max Müller

German scholar