LC control no. | n 85059224 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Leo, Africanus, approximately 1492-approximately 1550 |
Variant(s) | Africano, Juan León, approximately 1492-approximately 1550 Giovanni Leone, Africanus, approximately 1492-approximately 1550 Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Wazzān al-Fāsī, approximately 1492-approximately 1550 Iohn Leo, a More, approximately 1492-approximately 1550 Jān Liyūn al-Ifrīqī, approximately 1492-approximately 1550 Jean Léon, l'Africain, approximately 1492-approximately 1550 Johann Leo, der Africaner, approximately 1492-approximately 1550 Johann Leo, Granatino, approximately 1492-approximately 1550 Johannes Leo, der Africaner, approximately 1492-approximately 1550 John Leo, Africanus, approximately 1492-approximately 1550 Juan León, Africano, approximately 1492-approximately 1550 Leo, Africanus, ca. 1492-ca. 1550 Leo Africanus, Joannes, 16th cent. Leo Africanus, Joannes, approximately 1492-approximately 1550 Leo, Iohn, approximately 1492-approximately 1550 León Africano, Juan, approximately 1492-approximately 1550 Léon, l'Africain, approximately 1492-approximately 1550 Liyūn al-Afrīqī, approximately 1492-approximately 1550 Liyūn al-Ifrīqī, approximately 1492-approximately 1550 Médicis, Jean Léon de, approximately 1492-approximately 1550 جان ليون الافريقي |
Birth date | 1492~ |
Death date | 1550~ |
Profession or occupation | Diplomats Authors |
Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
Found in | His Beschreibung Afrikas, c1984: t.p. (Johann Leo Africanus) p. 2, etc. (... Johann Leo's des Africaners; b. ca. 1492 as El-Hassan Ibn Mohammed el-Wassan es Sajjati; came to Italy in 1518; 1/16/1520 Pope Leo X baptised him as Johann Leo; Johann Leo Granatino; 1526 wrote Beschreibung Africas in Italian which was first printed in 1550; since then known as Leo Africanus) LC data base, 5-21-85 (hdg.: Leo Africanus, Joannes, 16th cent.; usage: Johannes Leo) Brockhaus, 1970 (Leo Africanus; b. 1492 in Granada; d. after 1550 in Tunis; after 1517 lived in Rome as protégé of Pope Leo X; 1550 went back to Tunis) Encyc. Brit., 15th ed. (Leo Africanus; b. ca. 1485 in Granada as Al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzān al-Zayātī or al Fāsī; d. ca. 1554 in Tunis; bapt. 1520 as Giovanni Leone; John Leo; ca. 1526 complete Descrittione dell'Africa; pub. in 1550) His A geographical historie of Africa [MI] 1600: t.p. (Iohn Leo, a More) Maalouf, A. Léon, l'Africain, c1986: p. 4 cover (Hassan al-Wazzan became the geographer Jean Léon de Médicis, called Léon l'Africain) His Waṣf Ifrīqiyā, 1982- : v. 2, t.p. (al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Wazzān al-Fāsī, al-maʻrūf bi-Liyūn al-Ifrīqī) His Waṣf Ifrīqīyā, 197-?: t.p. (Jān Liyūn al-Ifrīqī, also called al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Wazzān al-Zayyātī) Zhiri, O. L'Afrique au miroir de l'Europe : fortunes de Jean Léon l'Africain à la Renaissance, 1991. Descripción general del Africa, 1995: t.p. (Juan León Africano) Johannes Leo der Africaner, 1999. Haklvytvs posthumus, 1625: v. II, p. 749 (Iohn Leo) Descripción general del África y de las cosas peregrinas que allí hay, 2004: t.p. (Juan León Africano) Wikipedia, July 20, 2018 (Joannes Leo Africanus, diplomat and author) |