Danish statesman and humanist. Steinburg (near Itzehoe), 11 March 1526 - Breitenberg, on the night of 31 December 1598-1 January 1599. Studied at the University of Wittenberg. With Duke Adolf of Schleswig-Hollstein-Gottorp at the Court of Charles V (1548-1555). Governor of the King of Danmark in the duchies of Schleswig-Hollstein. Cf. Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, 27, 1888, pages 278-279. Rantzovius wished that Plantin should print another of his works, the Genealogia Ranzoviana, but the typographer advised the governor to address himself to Plantin's son-in-law F. Raphelengius in Leiden (cf. Plantin's letters to Rantzovius, 7 August 1586 and 22 October 1586: Corr., VIII-IX, nos. 1126 and 1158); the work does not seem to have been published. In Museum Plantin-Moretus is also a collection of drawings of astrological figures, bearing on the title-page 'Ramzovius Figurae variae' (J. Denucé, Catalogue des manuscrits [du Musée Plantin-Moretius], page 35).
- cp013382: Catalogus imperatorum, regum ac principum qui astrologicam artem amarunt, ornarunt et exercuerunt…, [edited by Th. Sylvius], 1580.
- cp011779: Epigrammatum historicus liber, [edited by H.C. Gambrivius], 1581.
- cp013311: De conservanda valetudine liber, [edited by D. Silvius], 1580.
- cp012487: De conservanda valetudine liber, [edited by D. Silvius], 1584.
- cp010936: De conservanda valetudine liber, [edited by D. Silvius], 1585.