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Willibald Pirckheimer

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Pirckheimer, Willibald
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Person
Gender
Male
Date of birth
1470-12-05
Place of birth
Eichstätt
Date of death
1530-12-22
Place of death
Nürnberg

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Willibald Pirckheimer (5 December 1470 – 22 December 1530) was a German Renaissance lawyer, author and Renaissance humanist, a wealthy and prominent figure in Nuremberg in the 16th century, imperial counsellor and a member of the governing City Council for two periods. One of the most important cultural patrons of Germany in his own right, he was the closest friend of the artist Albrecht Dürer, who made a number of portraits of him, and a close friend of the great humanist and theologian Erasmus.

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