Georg Tannstetter

Georg Tannstetter (1482–1535), also called Collimitius, was born at Rain am Lech in Bavaria and studied at Ingolstadt before Conrad Celtis called him to the University of Vienna in 1503 to teach mathematics. One of the leading Viennese humanists, he became personal physician to Emperor Maximilian I in 1510 and was ennobled in 1516.

He edited the map of Hungary known as Tabula Hungariae from a manuscript by Lazarus Secretarius; printed in 1528, it included a scale and details of some 1300 settlements. His lives of Vienna's mathematicians, Viri Mathematici, pioneered the history of science.