Johann Boemus (Bohm, Bohemus) ( 1485–1535) was a German humanist, canon of

Ulm Minster Ulm Minster () is a Gothic Architecture, Gothic church (building), church located in Ulm, State of Baden-Württemberg (Germany). It was originally built as a Roman Catholic church (building), church but became a Lutheran Church in the 16th Cen ...

, traveller, and Hebraist. He was compiler and author of the first ethnographic compendium of the

Early Modern The early modern period is a Periodization, historical period that is defined either as part of or as immediately preceding the modern period, with divisions based primarily on the history of Europe and the broader concept of modernity. There i ...

period in Europe. Donald F. Lach, ''Asia in the Making of Europe: A Century of Wonder. Book 2: The Literary Arts'' (1994), p. 336 His ''Omnium Gentium Mores, Leges et Ritus'' was published in 1520. It was reprinted multiple times in the sixteenth century, including a 1571 edition. There were later editions, accumulating related treatises by other scholars. It influenced Sebastian Muenster's ''Cosmography'', and helped inspire the ''Hauptchronik'' of

Sebastian Franck Sebastian Franck (20 January 1499 Donauwörth, Swabia (Bavaria), Swabia – c. 1543 Basel, Switzerland) was a 16th-century Germany, German freethinker, humanism, humanist, and Radical Reformation, radical reformer. Biography Franck was born in 1 ...

. 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'') and Edward Aston, ''The Manners, Lawes and Customs of all Nations'' (London: G. Eld, 1611). This book is cited as the first scientific approach to ethnography available in English.David Keane, ''Caste-based Discrimination in International Human Rights Law'' (2007), p. 38

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Boemus, Johann 1485 births 1535 deaths German Renaissance humanists Christian Hebraists German male writers