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   Oporinus
   Joannes
   J. O. ; Johann / Johannes Herbst / Jean Oporin / Iōannīs Opōrinos / Joh. Herpst / Joannis Stobej ;
   
   
   1507 in Basel, Switzerland
   1568
   Basel
   painter from Strasbourg
   
   Prof. of Greek and Latin in Basel, printers partner; scholar of medicine
   Switzerland
   anatomist Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) ; woodcuts in the German excerpt from Vesalius’s Fabrica Humani Corporis (1543) ;
   
   background artist: Domenico Campagnola ;
   anatomical woodcut printing
   www.pitts.emory.edu/DIA/detail.cfm?ID=11641 ; http://www.tipsimages.it/Photo/ShowImage_Editorial_Popup.asp?IMID=496362
   http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Oporinus,_Johannes
   ADB 24 (1886): 381-387 ; Vesalius: De Fabrica 1543; Thornton & Reeves 1983: 58 (pl. 18); Vivian Nutton: Vesalius revised - his annotations to the 1555 Fabrica, Medical History 56,4(2012):440
   active in Basel; also active as publisher; he owned the woodcuts for Vesalius' original plates
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