Template:Did you know nominations/Johann Jacobi von Wallhausen
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The result was: withdrawn by nominator, closed by Launchballer talk 03:23, 29 April 2025 (UTC)
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Johann Jacobi von Wallhausen
Illustration from Wallhausen's De re militari
- ... that Johann Jacobi von Wallhausen's German translation of De re militari (pictured) was illustrated by the engraver Theodor de Bry?
- Source: Sydney Anglo (2002), "Vegetius's 'De Re Militari': The Triumph of Mediocrity", The Antiquaries Journal, 82: 256, doi:10.1017/s0003581500073790: "One of his key pedagogical techniques was to provide plenty of illustrations and, in this respect, he was perhaps fortunate to secure the enthusiastic services of Theodore De Bry both as publisher and as engraver and organizer of engravers."
- ALT1: ... that Johann Jacobi von Wallhausen's military treatise Kriegskunst zu Fuß of 1615 became the first subtantial secular book printed in Russia in 1649? Source: Oleg Rusakovskiy (2020), "The Russian Edition of Johann Jacobi von Wallhausen's Kriegskunst zu Fuß (1649): The History of A Failure?", Militaergeschichtliche Zeitschrift, 79 (1): 1–25, doi:10.1515/mgzs-2020-0001: "it was the first book on secular matters printed in Russia, not counting some textbooks on grammar and elementary arithmetic".
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/History of the Jews in Dubrovnik
- Comment: Many more images on Commons. Any one could swapped in and used here if it looked better at DYK size.