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About Willibald Pirckheimer
Willibald Pirckheimer 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.
Everything about Willibald Pirckheimer →- Occupation
- politician, writer, jurist, humanist
- Position held
- council member, Imperial Councillor, council member
- Citizenship
- Holy Roman Empire
- Born
- December 5, 1470
- Died
- December 22, 1530