Editing Johannes Aventinus (section)

{{short description|Bavarian Renaissance humanist historian and philologist (1477-1534)}}
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[[Image:Johannes Aventinus.jpg|thumb|Johannes Aventinus<br /><small>''illustration from 19th&nbsp;century''</small>]]
'''Johann Georg Turmair''' (or '''Thurmayr''') (4 July 1477&nbsp;&ndash; 9 January 1534), known by the [[pen name]] '''Johannes Aventinus''' ([[Medieval Latin|Latin]] for "John of [[Abensberg]]") or '''Aventin''',<ref name="eb1911">{{EB1911 |inline=y |wstitle=Aventinus |volume=3|page=53}}</ref> was a [[Bavaria]]n [[Renaissance humanism|Renaissance humanist]] [[historian]] and [[philologist]]. He authored the 1523 ''Annals of Bavaria'', a valuable record of the early history of Germany.<ref>James Wood, ed., [http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wood-NuttallEncyclopaedia/a/aventinus.html ''The Nuttall Encyclopædia''], 1907; a modern biography in English is G. Strauss, ''Historian in an age of crisis: the life and work of Johannes Aventinus, 1477-1534'', 1963.</ref>