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2 unusual facts about Willibald Pirckheimer


Willibald Pirckheimer

Most of Pirckheimer's own library, famous in its day, was sold by another Imhoff descendent to the Earl of Arundel in 1636.

Born in Eichstätt, Bavaria, the son of a lawyer, Dr Johannes Pirckheimer, he was educated in Italy, studying law at Padua and Pavia for seven years.



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