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Johannes Trithemius

1462 - 1516

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Johannes Trithemius (; 1 February 1462 – 13 December 1516), born Johann Heidenberg, was a German Benedictine abbot and a polymath who was active in the German Renaissance as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist. He is considered the founder of modern cryptography (a claim shared with Leon Battista Alberti) and steganography, as well as the founder of bibliography and literary studies as branches of knowledge. He had considerable influence on the development of early modern and modern occultism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johannes Trithemius has received more than 306,149 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Johannes Trithemius is the 144th most popular mathematician (down from 142nd in 2019), the 884th most popular biography from Germany (down from 863rd in 2019) and the 21st most popular German Mathematician.

Johannes Trithemius is most famous for his book Polygraphiae which is a book about cryptography.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Johannes Trithemius ranks 144 out of 1,004. Before him are Ernst Kummer, William Oughtred, Vincenzo Viviani, Harald Bohr, Andrew Wiles, and Mary Jackson. After him are Émile Borel, Henri Lebesgue, Zoia Ceaușescu, Andrey Markov, Edward Norton Lorenz, and Wang Chong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1462, Johannes Trithemius ranks 5. Before him are Louis XII of France, Piero di Cosimo, Joanna la Beltraneja, and Pietro Pomponazzi. After him are Mihnea cel Rău, Pietro Lando, Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Edzard I, Count of East Frisia, and John de la Pole, 1st Earl of Lincoln. Among people deceased in 1516, Johannes Trithemius ranks 8. Before him are Ferdinand II of Aragon, Giovanni Bellini, Vladislaus II of Hungary, Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours, Giuliano da Sangallo, and Juan Díaz de Solís. After him are Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghuri, John III of Navarre, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, and Jacopo de' Barbari.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johannes Trithemius ranks 884 out of 7,253. Before him are Gerhard von Scharnhorst (1755), William II of Württemberg (1848), Andrew Wiles (1953), Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752), Gotthard Kettler (1517), and Eugen Dühring (1833). After him are Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876), Ernst Heinkel (1888), Johann Ambrosius Bach (1645), Florian Geyer (1490), Saloninus (242), and Fritz Haarmann (1879).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Johannes Trithemius ranks 21. Before him are Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804), Christopher Clavius (1538), Hermann Weyl (1885), Ferdinand von Lindemann (1852), Hermann of Reichenau (1013), and Andrew Wiles (1953). After him are Robert Aumann (1930), Ernst Zermelo (1871), Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849), Constantin Carathéodory (1873), Thomas Abbt (1738), and Maria Reiche (1903).

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