Book Title: Prosopographiae heroum atque illustrium uirorum totius Germaniae, pars prima[-tertia] : In hac personarum descriptione omnium tam armis et autoritate, quàm literis & religione totius Germaniae celebrium uirorum uitae & res præclarè gestae bona fide referuntur, à condito mundo, adeo*q[ue] prima linguarum confusione, ad Caroli Magni primi Germanorum Imperatoris tempora, atque annum post Christi Natiuitatem octingentesimum usq[ue]: opus plane nouum et iucundissimum, ex omnium fere gentium chronicis, annalibus, & historijs magna diligentia excerptum: & uiuis heroum imaginibus (quantum fieri potuit) passim illustratum: ac nunc primum ob patriæ decorem in lucem editum. Ita quod instar continuae historiae Germanorum esse queat / Authore Henrico Pantaleone.

Author: Pantaleon, Heinricus, 1522-1595

Image Title: Jacob Spiegel

Description: An image of Jacob Spiegel, the political advisor and legal scholar from Schlettstadt. Spiegel served as a consultant to Holy Roman Emperors Maximilian I (r. 1508-1519 CE) and Charles V (r. 1519-1556 CE), as well as the Bohemian and Hungarian King Ferdinand I.

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