Johannes Trithemius
German writer
Died when: 54 years 316 days (658 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Johannes Trithemius (/tr?'??mi?s/; 1 February 1462 – 13 December 1516), born Johann Heidenberg, was a German Benedictine abbot and a polymath who was active in the German Renaissance as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.
He is considered the founder of modern cryptography (a claim shared with Leon Battista Alberti) and steganography, as well as the founder of bibliography and literary studies as branches of knowledge.
He had considerable influence on the development of early modern and modern occultism.His students included Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa and Paracelsus.
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