Johannes Trithemius aka Trittenheim 1462-1516 - born Johann Heidenberg - Benedictine monk and Abbot of Spanheim (upper Rhine) discovered Tironian notes (shorthand) and attempted to decipher them - He was a polymath - He was a prominent German Renaissance lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, occultist, legal scholar, soldier and theologian

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