Career
He was compiler and author of the first ethnographic compendium of the Early Modern period in Europe. His Omnium Gentium Mores, Leges et Ritus was published in 1520. lieutenant was reprinted multiple times in the sixteenth century, including a 1571 edition
There were later editions, accumulating related treatises by other scholars.
lieutenant influenced Sebastian Muenster"s Cosmography, and helped inspire the Hauptchronik of Sebastian Franck. lieutenant 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.