Johannes Leunclavius
German historian and orientalist (c. 1533/1541 – 1594)
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Johannes Leunclavius[1] (c. 1533/1541 – 1594) was a German historian and orientalist. He was an expert in Turkish history, republishing and annotating Ottoman sources. He also edited Xenophon, Cassius Dio, and other classical authors.
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He also published Historiae Musulmanae Turcorum, de monumentis ipsorum exscriptae, libri XVIII.
Leunclavius accompanied the nobleman Heinrich von Lichtenstein on a diplomatic mission to Istanbul, staying there from October 1584 to April 1585.[2]
He was a friend of Friedrich Sylburg, who published his translation of Zosimus.[3]
