Ansedd geograf och kartograf som införde litografikonsten i England.
Was the most important member of an Augsburg family of artists and publishers. He was the German representative of the 'Vue d'Optique' , a genre of copper engravings showing in the size of this here shown print the architectural 'wonders of the world' to people mainly during fairs. The prints were pushed into a view box and the viewers, one at a time, could look through a lens to see the prints inserted into the box by the operator, for money, of course. There were French, Italian, Spanish, publishers of Vue d'Optique prints. But the most famous and the most true to facts ones came from the Augsburg workshop of G.B. Probst. He produced ca. 400 of them, not only views of places, but also a variety of other subject matters. While most prints of this genre were loudly and heavily colored, a small series was left black and white, truly showing their artistic value beyond the fulfilment of curiosity at fairs.
Född 1727 22/6 på Västervik i Varnums sn (Värml), död 1793 26/12 i Vadstena.
Lantmätare, kartograf och kopparstickare. Ingenjör. Broder till Jacob Gillberg. Student vid Uppsala universitet 1748. Volontär vid Fortifikationen 1749. Avlade lantmäteriexamen. 1754, kommissionslantmätare 1757. Postmästare i Vadstena 1785-90
Bland arbeten.
J. L. GILLBERG, Historisk, oeconomisk och geographisk beskrifning öfwer Malmö hus lähn, Lund 1765: karta över Malmöhus hövdingedöme.
DENS., Historisk, oeconomisk och geographisfc beskrifning öfver Christianstads län, Lund 1767: karta över Kristianstads hövdingedöme.
Karta över Gästrikland och Hälsingland, efter O. Insulander 1789.
Hultmark, 1944.
Vägvisare för XI Olympiaden i Berlin - 1936
Norditalien. - Weiland 1834.
