Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Sebastian Münster

MÜNSTER, (–), Hebraist, geographer, and mathematician, was born at Ingelheim in the Palatinate in. After studying at Heidelberg and Tübingen, he entered the Franciscan order, but abandoned it for Lutheranism about. Shortly afterwards he was appointed court preacher at Heidelberg, where also he lectured in Hebrew and Old Testament exegesis. From he taught at Basel, where he died of the plague on 23d. He was described on his tombstone as the Ezra and the Strabo of the Germans.

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