!!!Johannes von Gmunden

Johannes von Gmunden, b. Gmunden (Upper Austria), around 1380/84, 
d. Vienna, Feb. 23, 1442, humanist, mathematician and astronomer 
at the University of Vienna, brought the mathematical and astronomical 
knowledge of Antiquity and of Arabian scholars to Central Europe. His 
astronomical diagrams and calculations were epochal. He published the 
first printed calendar in the German language and is credited with the 
first map of Vienna ( Albertinischer Plan). Before his death priest in 
Laa an der Thaya.

!Literature
P. Uiblein, J. v. G., in: Beitraege zur Wr. 
Dioezesangeschichte 15, 1974; E. Prillinger (ed.), Die Zeit kommt 
vom Himmel: von der Astronomie zum Kalender. Zum Gedaechtnis 
J. v. G., 1384-1442, 1984.


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