Johannes Schoner (January 16, 1477 - January 16, 1547) was a renowned and respected German polymath. He was a priest, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, cosmographer, cartographer, mathematician, globe and scientific instrument maker and editor and publisher of scientific tests. In his own time he enjoyed a European wide reputation as an innovative and influential globe maker and cosmographer and as one of the continents leading and most authoritative astrologers. He owned his own printing company and published many maps and globes. The very first printed globe of the sky was made in his workshop in 1515. In 1526 he became first professor of mathematics at the newly founded gymnasium Aegidianum, a post he held till one year prior to his death. In 1544 he published the astronomical observations of Regiomontanus and Walther. He died in 1547 on his 70th birthday.