Renward Cysat (''Cusatus''; 1545–1614) was an apothecary, advocate, cartographer and city councillor of

Lucerne Lucerne ( ) or Luzern ()Other languages: ; ; ; . is a city in central Switzerland, in the Languages of Switzerland, German-speaking portion of the country. Lucerne is the capital of the canton of Lucerne and part of the Lucerne (district), di ...

. He is the father of mathematician and astronomer

Johann Baptist Cysat Johann Baptist Cysat (Latinized as Cysatus; in French, Jean-Baptiste Cysat) (c. 1587 – March 17, 1657) was a Swiss Jesuit mathematician and astronomer, after whom the lunar crater Cysatus is named. He was born in Lucerne, as the eighth of 14 c ...

. Cysat published works about the

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and

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of Lucerne, as well as a number of theatrical plays, and a book about ( then-recently discovered)

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. He was responsible for the first map of the

canton of Lucerne The canton of Lucerne ( ; ; ; ) is a Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Switzerland. It is located in the country's central, German-speaking Switzerland, German-speaking part. The population of the canton (as of ) is . , the population included 57 ...

, published in 1613.Heinz Horat und Thomas Klöti, Die Luzernerkarte von Hans Heinrich Wägmann und Renward Cysat, 1597-1613. In: Der Geschichsfreund 139 (1986), 47-100. Die älteste Karte des Kantons Luzern von Hans Heinrich Wägmann und Renward Cysat, 1597-1613: die Originalzeichnung und die Nachbildungen. In: Cartographica Helvetica, 1990, Heft 2, 20-26. Cysat was given the honorary title of ''

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'' by pope

Gregory XIII Pope Gregory XIII (, , born Ugo Boncompagni; 7 January 1502 – 10 April 1585) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 13 May 1572 to his death in April 1585. He is best known for commissioning and being the namesake ...

in 1576.

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Renward Brandstetter Renward Brandstetter (29 June 1860 – 17 April 1942) was a Switzerland, Swiss philologist and linguist who published about medieval and modern Swiss German and the older Swiss History of theatre, theatre history and studied the insular Malayo-Poly ...

, ''Renward Cysat, 1545-1614: der Begründer der schweizerischen Volkskunde'' (1909). *E. Hoffmann-Krayer, "Cysatiana. Volkskundliches aus dem Kanton Luzern um die Wende des 16. Jahrhunderts", ''Schweizerisches Archiv für Volkskunde'' = ''Archives suisses des traditions populaires'' 14 (1910)
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{{authority control Swiss folklorists Swiss dramatists and playwrights Apothecaries Swiss cartographers People from Lucerne 1545 births 1614 deaths