János Zsámboky

János Zsámboky or János Zsámboki or János Sámboki, (with his humanist name Latin: Johannes Sambucus, or Johannes Pannonicus Sambucus; June 1, 1531 - June 13, 1584) was a Hungarian humanist scholar: physician, philologist and historian.
Zsámboky was born in Trnava (in historical times referred to as Tyrnavia, Tyrnau, Nagyszombat). He was the composer of the most renowned Hungarian Emblemata book: Emblemata cum aliquot nummis antiqui operis, Ioannis Sambuci Tirnaviensis Pannonii. (1564). Sambucus' emblem book was edited five times and it was translated into French and Dutch. He also wrote the Icones veterum aliquot ac recentium Medicorum Philosophorumque in 1574, published in Antwerpen. He died, aged 53, in Vienna.
Life and Work
Johannes Sambucus was born in 1531 in Trnava, Nagyszombat, then in Hungary, now Trnava in the Slovak Republic.
In Vienna in 1542 he graduated, and went on to study philology,...