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Olaus Magnus

Olaus Magnus (born Olof Månsson; October 1490 – 1 August 1557) was a Swedish writer, cartographer, and Catholic clergyman.

The Most Reverend

Olaus Magnus

Roman Catholic

Uppsala

4 June 1544

1 August 1557

Johannes Magnus

Laurentius Petri

Olof Månsson

October 1490
Skänninge, Sweden

1 August 1557 (aged 66)
Rome, Papal States

Santa Maria dell'Anima, Rome

Swede

Name[edit]

His original Swedish name was Olof Månsson (his last name meaning "son of Måns"; Magnus is a Latinized version of his patronymic second name, and not the literal personal epithet meaning "great").[2][4]

Drømmen om hjemlandet The dream about the country of origin

in digital library Polona

Works by Olaus Magnus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the : Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Olaus Magnus". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 20 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 63.

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James Bell Ford Library, Minnesota

Carta Marina

The Plymouth Marine Laboratory Remote Sensing Group webpage on correlations with current oceanography.

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Otto Hartig (1913). . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

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