First Day Cover
首日封
Sobrescrito de 1.º Dia
SlovakiaART: Ján Sambucus (1531 – 1584)
Date of Issue : 25 November 2011
Johannes Sambucus (June 1, 1531, Nagyszombat - June 13, 1584, Vienna) was a Hungarian humanist scholar: physician, philologist and historian.
He was the composer of the most renowned Hungarian Emblemata book: Emblemata cum aliquot nummis antiqui operis, Ioannis Sambuci Tirnaviensis Pannonii. (1564). Sambucus' emblem book was edited five times and it was translated into French and Dutch. He also wrote the Icones veterum aliquot ac recentium Medicorum Philosophorumque in 1574, published in Antwerpen.
On the FDC, there is one of the illustrations of Sambucus collection "Emblemata".
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