Leunclavius
Illustration — Four-masted Turkish warship, by Leunclavius (1586) Johannes Leunclavius (c. 1533/1541 – 1594) was a German historian and orientalist. He was an expert in Turkish history, republishing and annotating Ottoman sources.
Leunclavius

Johannes Löwenklau (1541-1594) · Manuskriptseite Fol. 142r des Cod. 8615 der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek Wien, Bildarchiv Austria · Public domain
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Illustration — Four-masted Turkish warship, by Leunclavius (1586) Johannes Leunclavius (c. 1533/1541 – 1594) was a German historian and orientalist. He was an expert in Turkish history, republishing and annotating Ottoman sources.
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Born at Coesfeld in 1533, died in Vienna in 1592.
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Turkish parade at Buda in 1584 to great the Austrian emissary Prince Heinrich von Liechtenstein.
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