Sebastian Münster (nonfiction)

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Portrait of Sebastian Münster by Christoph Amberger, c. 1552.

Sebastian Münster (20 January 1488 – 26 May 1552) was a German cartographer, cosmographer, and a Christian Hebraist scholar. His work, the Cosmographia from 1544, was the earliest German description of the world.