Willibald Pirckheimer
Willibald Pirckheimer (5 December 1470 – 22 December 1530) was a
German Renaissance lawyer, author and
Renaissance humanist, a wealthy and prominent figure in Nuremberg in the 16th century, imperial counsellor and a member of the governing City Council for two periods. One of the most important cultural patrons of Germany in his own right, he was the closest friend of the artist
Albrecht Dürer, who made a number of portraits of him, and a close friend of the great humanist and
theologian Erasmus.
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