Johannes Aventinus

Johannes Aventinus (1477–1534), born Johann Georg Turmair at Abensberg in Bavaria, was a Renaissance humanist historian and philologist. He studied at Ingolstadt, taking his master's degree in 1504, and in 1517 became Bavaria's first court historiographer.

Research in Bavarian monasteries fed his Latin Annals of the Dukes of Bavaria (1521), and he later wrote the German Bavarian Chronicle. Suspected of Protestant sympathies, he was briefly imprisoned in 1528 and died at Regensburg in 1534, honoured as the father of Bavarian historiography.