Johannes Virdung, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German astrologer
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Place of Birth: Haßfurt, Bavaria, Germany
About Johannes Virdung
- Johann, Hans or Johannes Virdung of Hassfurt was a celebrated astrologer of the early sixteenth century from the Electoral Palatinate.
- He had an official position at Heidelberg, at the court of the Elector Palatine.
- He wrote various works under generic names (Prognosticon, Practica), including a millennarian work, Practica von dem Entchrist around 1510.He was a correspondent of Johannes Trithemius.
- One of the early sources for the Faust legend occurs in a letter of Trithemius to Virdung.Virdung studied at the University of Leipzig beginning in 1481, then in Cracow from 1484 to 1486 or 1487.
- He returned to Leipzig in 1487, where he graduated as a "Magister" in 1491.
- It has been suggested that Virdung was of the school of the astronomer Albertus de Brudzewo, and had studied with him and Johannes de Glogovia in Cracow.
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