Collection: Sebastian Münster

Sebastian Münster (born Jan. 20, 1488, Ingelheim, electorate of Mainz [Germany]—died May 23, 1552, Basel, Switz.) was a German cartographer, cosmographer, and Hebrew scholar whose Cosmographia (1544; “Cosmography”) was the earliest German description of the world and a major work in the revival of geographic thought in 16th-century Europe.