About Renward Cysat
Lived 1545 – 1614 (aged 68). Renward Cysat was a Swiss pharmacist, notary, writer, cartographer, playwright and polymath.
Renward Cysat (Cusatus; 1545–1614) was an apothecary, advocate, cartographer and city councillor of Lucerne. He is the father of mathematician and astronomer Johann Baptist Cysat.
Cysat published works about the history and folklore of Lucerne, as well as a number of theatrical plays, and a book about (then-recently discovered) Japan. He was responsible for the first map of the canton of Lucerne, published in 1613. Cysat was given the honorary title of count palatine by pope Gregory XIII in 1576.
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Who was Renward Cysat?
Swiss pharmacist and civil law notary (1545-1614)
When was Renward Cysat born?
Renward Cysat was born on 11 October 1545 in Lucerne.
When did Renward Cysat die?
Renward Cysat died on 25 April 1614 in Lucerne.
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Renward Cysat was a pharmacist, notary, writer, cartographer, playwright and polymath.
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Renward Cysat was Swiss.
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