Konrad Peutinger (1465 - 1547), German humanist and antiquarian, was born at Augsburg. Events July 13 - Battle of Montlhéry - Troops of King Louis XI of France fight inconclusively against an army of the great nobles organized as the League of the Public Weal. ... Events January 16 - Grand Duke Ivan IV of Muscovy becomes the first Tsar of Russia. ... The Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland) is one of the worlds leading industrialised countries, located in the heart of Europe. ... Humanism is a system of thought that defines a socio-political doctrine (-ism) whose bounds exceed those of locally developed cultures, to include all of humanity and all issues common to human beings. ... link titleAn antiquarian is one concerned with antiquities or things of the past. ... Augsburg is a city in south central Germany. ...

In 1497 he was town clerk of his native place, and was on intimate terms with the emperor Maximilian. He was one of the first to publish Roman inscriptions, and his name remains associated with the famous Tabula peutingeriana, a map of the military roads of the western Roman Empire, which was discovered by Konrad Celtes, who handed it over to Peutinger for publication. Peutinger also edited the Historia Gothorum of Jordanes, and the Historia gentis Langobardorum of Paulus Diaconus. Events May 10 - Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World. ... Emperor Maximilian I Maximilian I of Habsburg (March 22, 1459 - January 12, 1519) was Holy Roman Emperor Life and reign in the Habsburg hereditary lands Maximilian was born in Vienna as the son of the Emperor Frederick III and Eleanore of Portugal. ... The Western Roman Empire is the name given to the western half of the Roman Empire after its division by Diocletian. ... Jordanes (also Jordanis or even Iornandes, bold as a boar) was a 6th century historian in Moesia (modern Bulgaria), who provides most of the literary evidence concerning the early history of the Goths, by giving a very criticized condensation of a lost history by Cassiodorus under the title De origine... Paul the Deacon (c. ...

The Tabula peutingeriana was first published as a whole by F de Scheyb (1753); later editions by E Desjardins (1869-1874) and C Miller (1888); see also E Paulus, Enklarung der Peutinger Tafel (1867); and Teuffel-Schwabe, Hist. of Roman Literature (Eng. trans., 1900).

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