Thomas Platter
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Thomas Platter the Elder was a Swiss humanist scholar and teacher. He was an early follower of the Protestant Reformation.
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Johannes Oporinus
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Johannes Oporinus was a humanist printer in Basel.
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…Oswald Myconius. In Basel, Platter earned a reputation as a teacher of ancient languages and literature. From 1535 to 1544, he led a printing house with Johannes Oporinus and Ruprecht Winter, publishing various classical texts. They published the first edition of John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion. In…
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