Johann Boemus

Johann Boemus (Bohm, Bohemus) (c. 1485–1535) was a German humanist, canon of Ulm Minster, traveller, and Hebraist.

He was compiler and author of the first ethnographic compendium of the Early Modern period in Europe.

It was reprinted multiple times in the sixteenth century, including a 1571 edition.

[2] It helped set the stage for subsequent investigations of the connections of law to culture, including Paul Henri Mallett's Northern Antiquities (1770).

There were English translations by William Waterman (1555) (The Fardle of Facions)[6] and Edward Aston, The Manners, Lawes and Customs of all Nations (London: G. Eld, 1611).