Johannes Honterus

Johannes Honterus (1498–1549) was a Transylvanian Saxon humanist and Protestant reformer born in Brassó. After taking his master of arts degree at Vienna in 1525, the Ottoman advance of 1529 drove him west to Kraków and Basel, where he published a Latin grammar and a cosmography manual, practiced wood engraving and printed the first published map of Transylvania, based on information gathered on visits home.

Back home from 1533, he ran a printing house and school in Brassó and led the Transylvanian Saxons into the Lutheran Reformation, organizing their Evangelical church.