Andreas Osiander, 16th century German Lutheran theologian, 17th century. Artist: Unknown

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Andreas Osiander, 16th century German Lutheran theologian, 17th century. Osiander (1498-1552) was Professor of Theology at Konigsberg and was responsible for seeing through the printing of Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543) controversial work De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of Celestial Spheres). From Icones Virorum, Friedrich Roth-Scholtz, (Nuremberg, 1725).

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