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    Johannes Magnus (a modified form of Ioannes Magnus, a Latin translation of his birth name Johan Månsson; 19 March 1488 – 22 March 1544) was the last functioning...
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  • Olaus Magnus (October 1490 – 1 August 1557) was a Swedish writer, cartographer, and Catholic clergyman. Olaus Magnus (a Latin translation of his birth...
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    "because of the similarity of the last syllable" (Etymologiae, IX, 89). Johannes Magnus (1488–1544) stated that Magog migrated to Scandinavia (via Finland)...
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  • Companion Guides. p. 242. ISBN 978-1-900639-33-0. Johannes; Brita Larsson (1992). Johannes Magnus' Latin Letters. Lund University Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-86238-304-6...
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    by Johannes Magnus, Sweden's last Catholic archbishop. In 1554 (ten years after his death) it was published in Latin by his brother Olaus Magnus. The...
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    introduction of printing into Sweden. There were also scholars, such as Johannes Magnus (died 1544), who wrote the "Historia de omnibus Gothorum sueonumque...
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  • his personal fief, during the reign of Nimrod at Babel. The Swede Johannes Magnus around the same time as Aventinus, wrote that Gothus or Gethar, also...
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    Trolle (under Danish government) 1523–1544: Johannes Magnus (in exile after 1526) 1544–1557: Olaus Magnus (in exile) 1531–1573: Laurentius Petri (Nericius)...
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    the Swedish writer Johannes Magnus (Historia de omnibus Gothorum Sueonumque regibus) as well as those of his brother Olaus Magnus (Historia de gentibus...
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  • of these speeches were written down and preserved, and included by Johannes Magnus when he wrote the influential History of the Nordic People about 150...
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