death_date birth_place nationality birth_date image article_title name occupation
8 october 1580 -lrb- aged 64 -rrb- oettingen in bayern , germany german 13 august 1516 hieronymus wolf2.jpg hieronymus wolf
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hieronymus wolf

hieronymus wolf -lrb- 13 august 1516 - 8 october 1580 -rrb- was a sixteenth-century german historian and humanist , most famous for introducing a system of byzantine historiography that eventually became the standard in works of medieval greek history .
