Wolfgang Lazius

[1] He later became curator of the imperial collections of the Holy Roman Empire and official historian to Emperor Ferdinand I.

In that capacity, he authored a number of historical works, in research for which he traveled widely, amassing (and sometimes stealing) documents from numerous monasteries and other libraries.

[2] He also produced maps of Austria, Bavaria, Hungary, and Greece, now considered important in the history of cartography.

[1] His Typi chorographici provinciarum Austriae (1561) bears some early elements of a historical atlas, though it serves more as a celebration of the Habsburg monarchy than as a true historical work.

[3] It is thought that Giuseppe Arcimboldo's painting The Librarian is of Lazius.