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Oct 31, 1514 Vienna, Austria Died on 19 Jun 1565 (aged 50)
Austrian historian
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About Wolfgang Lazius
- Wolfgang Laz, better known by his Latinized name Wolfgang Lazius (October 31, 1514 – June 19, 1565), was an Austrian humanist who worked as a cartographer, historian, and physician. Lazius was born in Vienna, and first studied medicine, becoming professor in the medical faculty at the University of Vienna in 1541.
- He later became curator of the imperial collections of the Holy Roman Empire and official historian to Emperor Ferdinand I.
- In that capacity, he authored a number of historical works, in research for which he traveled widely, amassing (and sometimes stealing) documents from numerous monasteries and other libraries.
- He also produced maps of Austria, Bavaria, Hungary, and Greece, now considered important in the history of cartography.
- His Typi chorographici provinciarum Austriae (1561) bears some early elements of a historical atlas, though it serves more as a celebration of the Habsburg Monarchy than as a true historical work.It is thought that Giuseppe Arcimboldo's painting The Librarian is of Lazius.
