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Jessenius a Jessen, Johannes

Born: 27 December 1566, Wroclaw

Died: 21 June 1621, Prague

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Johannes Jessenius was a physician, anatomist, philosopher, and politician. He introduced the anatomical concepts of the late Renaissance to Central Europe and promoted Italian Renaissance philosophy, in particular, that of Francesco Piccolomini, Francesco Patrizi, and Girolamo Savonarola, in the Central-European region.

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  1. Centre for Renaissance Texts, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Palacky University Olomouc, Křížkovského 12, 771 81, Olomouc, Czech Republic

    Tomáš Nejeschleba

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    Marco Sgarbi

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Nejeschleba, T. (2015). Jessenius a Jessen, Johannes. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_560-1

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