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Johann Stumpf (writer)
1500Apr, 23

Johann Stumpf (writer)

Johann Stumpf, Swiss writer (d. 1576)
Johann Stumpf (23 April 1500 – c. 1578) was an early writer on the history and topography of Switzerland as well as a theologian and cartographer.

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