Johannes Honter

Johannes Honter
Honterus on a 2007 Romanian stamp
Born
Johannes Honter

1498 (1498)
Died23 January 1549 (aged 50–51)
Known forfounding the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Transylvania
Title
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Vienna (1520–1525)
University of Kraków (1530)
Academic work
EraReformation
Main interestsLutheranism
Statue of Johannes Honterus in Brașov, by Harro Magnussen

Johannes Honter (also known as Johann Hynter; Latinized as Johann Honterus or Ioannes Honterus; Romanian sources may credit him as Ioan, Hungarian ones as János; 1498 – 23 January 1549) was a Transylvanian Saxon, renaissance humanist, Protestant reformer, and theologian. Honter is best known for his geographic and cartographic publishing activity, as well as for implementing the Lutheran reform in Transylvania and founding the church, which would become the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Romania, after the union of Transylvania with Romania.