Johann Boemus (Bohm, Bohemus) ( 1485–1535) was a German humanist, canon of

Ulm Minster Ulm Minster (german: Ulmer Münster) is a Lutheran church located in Ulm, State of Baden-Württemberg (Germany). It is currently the tallest church in the world. The church is the fifth-tallest structure built before the 20th century, with a ...

, traveller, and Hebraist. He was compiler and author of the first ethnographic compendium of the Early Modern period in Europe. Donald F. Lach, ''Asia in the Making of Europe: A Century of Wonder. Book 2: The Literary Arts'' (1994), p. 336 His ''Omnium Gentium Mores, Leges et Ritus'' was published in 1520. It was reprinted multiple times in the sixteenth century, including a 1571 edition. There were later editions, accumulating related treatises by other scholars. It influenced Sebastian Muenster's ''Cosmography'', and helped inspire the ''Hauptchronik'' of

Sebastian Franck Sebastian Franck (20 January 1499 Donauwörth, Swabia – c. 1543 Basel, Switzerland) was a 16th-century German freethinker, humanist, and radical reformer. Biography Franck was born in 1499 in Donauwörth, Swabia. Because of this he styled hims ...

. It helped set the stage for subsequent investigations of the connections of law to culture, including Paul Henri Mallett's Northern Antiquities (1770). There were English translations by William Waterman (1555) (''The Fardle of Facions'') and Edward Aston, ''The Manners, Lawes and Customs of all Nations'' (London: G. Eld, 1611). This book is cited as the first scientific approach to ethnography available in English.David Keane, ''Caste-based Discrimination in International Human Rights Law'' (2007), p. 38

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Boemus, Johann 1485 births 1535 deaths German Renaissance humanists Christian Hebraists German male writers