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.
Engelsk kartförläggare i mitten av 1700-talet. Han gav troligen inte ut någon hel atlas, men däremot en rad enkla kartor. 1753 gav John Bowles & Son ut 'A catalogue of Maps, Prints, Copy-Books, etc. '
Bland arbeten.
A catalogue of Maps, Prints, Copy-Books, etc.
Brown, s. 354. - Tooley.
1684-1755. Född i Colditz, Sachsen, död i Göttingen.
Tysk historiker. Från 1703 studerade han teologi, språk och historia i Wittenberg. 1710 blev han professor i logik och 1714 i historia vid universitetet i Altdorf. 1735 blev han tillsatt som professor i historia vid det nyupprättade universitetet i Göttingen. Förutom flera historiska verk gav han bl.a. ut 'Bequemer Schulund Reisen-Atlas' (1719) och en 'Atlas manualis' (ca. 1724).
Bland arbeten.
Bequemer Schulund Reisen-Atlas.
Atlas manualis.
Allg. d. Biogr. - Ph.
Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.
Linköping - Generalstaben 1882.
