GERRITSZ [GERARD, GERARDUS, GHERRITSZOON van ASSUM].
Hessel 1581-1632.
Gerritsz was apprenticed to W. J. Blaeu as an engraver before starting in business on his own account. He worked closely with Petrus Plancius and his merit may be judged by the fact that he was appointed Cartographer to the Dutch East India Company in preference to Blaeu and subsequently held the same position in a newly formed West India Company. With the new company he came into touch with Johannes de
Laet for whom he prepared a number of new maps of America in the latter's Nieuwe Wereldt published in 1625. His most important early work was a chart showing Henry Hudson's discoveries in his voyage of 1610-11: it is the first to give an outline of Hudson's Bay and indicates Hudson's belief that he had found a way to the North West Passage.
Engraver, cartographer, publisher and bookseller, b. Assum, apprenticed as engraver to Blaeu, Cartographer to Dutch E. India Co. 1617, fl. 1607; from 1612 using sign 'in de Paskaert' or 'sub signo Tabulae Nauticae'. Addresses: (1) opt Water bij die oude Brug [1609...
Tooley.
DODOENS, REMBERT. [DODONAEUS, REMBERTUS] [DODONAEI, REMBERTI]
Mechelen June 29, 1517 – Leyden March 10, 1585
Rembert Dodoens was a Flemish physician and botanist, also known under his Latinized name Rembertus Dodonaeus.
In 1530 he started his studies of medicine, cosmography and geography at the University of Louvain, where he graduated in 1535. He established himself as a physician in Mechelen in 1538. He married Kathelijne De Bruyn(e) in 1539. He had a short stay in Basel (1542-1546). He turned down a chair at the University of Louvain in 1557. He equally turned down an offer to become court physician of emperor Philip II of Spain. He became the court physician of the Austrian emperor Rudolph II in Vienna (1575-1578). He then became professor in medicine at the University of Leiden in 1582.
Dodoens' herbal Cruydeboeck with 715 images (1554) was influenced by that of Leonhart Fuchs. He divided the plant kingdom in six groups. It treated in detail especially the medicinal herbs, which made this work, in the eyes of many, a pharmacopoeia.
It was translated first into French in 1557 by Charles de L'Ecluse ('H...
Bland arbeten.
Herbarium (1533)
Den Nieuwen Herbarius (1543)
Cosmographica in astronomiam et geographiam isagoge (1548)
De frugum historia (1552)
Trium priorum de stirpium historia commentariorum imagines (1553)
Posteriorum trium de stirpium historia commentariorum imagines (1554)
Cruydeboeck (1554)
Physiologices medicinae tabulae (1580)
Medicinalium observationum exempla rara (1581)
Stirpium historiae pemptades sex (1583)
Praxis medica (1616) (posthumous)
Ars medica, ofte ghenees-kunst (1624) (posthumous)
1801-1846.
Före adlandet Klint, sjöofficer, kartograf, f. 15 okt. 1801 på Karlberg, Solna, d. 30 april 1846 vid en förlisning i Mexikanska golfen. Son till Gustaf af Klint. - K. blev, knappast sexton år gammal, underlöjtnant vid örlogsflotten 1817, premiärlöjtnant 1827 och kapten 1841. Åren 1827-38 var han informationsofficer vid flottans styrmansskola i Karlskrona. Han blev led. av Krigsvet. akad. 1840. - Under många år var K. sin fader behjälplig vid utarbetandet av sjökort, och efter faderns död övertog han ledningen av det Klintska kartverket. År 1842 utgav K. 'Lärobok i navigationsvetenskapen med tillhörande nautiska och logarithmiska tabeller'. Hans nautiska tabeller voro länge välkända och allmänt brukade av sjöfarande. K. omkom som chef på korvetten Carlskrona under en cyklon utanför Kubas nordkust, då fartyget gick under med större delen av besättningen. - Gift 1829 med Laura Fredrika Silfverswärd.
Bland arbeten.
Lärobok i navigationsvetenskapen med tillhörande nautiska och logarithmiska tabeller.
Svenska män och kvinnor, band IV. Bonniers 1948.
Karta öfver Stockholm. - 1904.
Grevskapet Namur. - Blaeu 1643/44.
