János Zsámboky

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Johannes Sambucus

Native name	János Zsámboky
Born	June 1, 1531 Nagyszombat (nowTrnava)
Died	June 13, 1584 Vienna
Nationality	Hungarian

Portrait of Zsámboky in the second edition of his Emblemata

János Zsámboky or János Zsámboki or János Sámboki, (with his humanist name Latin: Johannes Sambucus, or Johannes Pannonicus Sambucus; June 1, 1531 - June 13, 1584) was a Hungarian^[1]^[2] humanist scholar: physician, philologist and historian.

Zsámboky was born at Nagyszombat (now Trnava in Slovakia). He was the composer of the most renowned Hungarian Emblemata book: Emblemata cum aliquot nummis antiqui operis, Ioannis Sambuci Tirnaviensis Pannonii. (1564). Sambucus' emblem book was edited five times and it was translated into French and Dutch. He also wrote the Icones veterum aliquot ac recentium Medicorum Philosophorumque in 1574, published in Antwerpen.^[3] He died, aged 53, in Vienna.

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 61551948 LCCN: n85065351 ISNI: 0000 0001 2135 5837 GND: 118751069 NKC: nlk20010097802

Persondata
Name	Zsamboky, Janos
Alternative names	Ján Sambucus
Short description	HUngarian scholar
Date of birth	June 1, 1531
Place of birth	Trnava
Date of death	June 13, 1584
Place of death	Vienna

References

↑ Jacob Soll, The information master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert's secret state intelligence system, University of Michigan Press, 2009, p.26
↑ Theo Hermans, A literary history of the Low Countries, Camden House, 2009, p.156
↑ "Lessico – Sambucus Ioannes". Summa Gallicana. Retrieved 21 October 2011.

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