Münster, Sebastian

Born Nieder-Ingelheim, near Mainz, died Basle.
German cosmographer, theologian, ordained as a priest in 1512, scholar. Best known for his Basle editions of Ptolemy’s “Geographia,” and the maps he made to accompany them: 1540, 1542, 1545, 1552 — eachwith 48 double-page woodcut maps. His “Cosmographia Universalis” with 500 woodcuts, and 24 double-page maps, was published in editions from 1544 until 1628. Source: Wikimedia