Münster

Münster, SEBASTIAN, scholar, was born at Ingelheim in the Palatinate in 1489, studied at Heidelberg and Tübingen, and became a Franciscan monk, but at the Reformation he embraced the new doctrines (1529). He then taught Hebrew and theology at Heidelberg, and from 1536 mathematics at Basel, in which city he died on 23d May 1552. He brought out the first Hebrew Bible (1534-35) edited by a German; wrote Cosmographia (1544), a work on geography that kept its ground for more than a century; and published a Hebrew grammar, a Chaldaic grammar (1527), and lexicon (1527), and a Latin-Greek-Hebrew dictionary (1530).