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Sophianos, Nikolaos.


Sophianos was well known as an expert on Greek history and geography. He was sent to Greece in about 1543 by Don Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, the Spanish envoy to Venice, to acquire Greek manuscripts for the Escurial Library. It is about this time – possibly in 1540, the date found at the end of Sophianos text on this map – that Sophianus compiled his great map of Greece, although there is no surviving example.
In 1544, Johann Oporinus, a printer and publisher in Basle, published an eight-sheet version of Sophianos map, cut by Master Christoph of Strasburg. Of this earliest printing, there is also no known extant example. Indeed, the earliest surviving printing of the map recorded by Zacharakis or Karrow was printed by Johann Schroeter in Basle in 1601.
It appears that Oporinus reprinted the map in 1545 to accompany his edition of Gerbelius “In Descriptionem Graeciae Sophiani, Praefatio….”. Although the book gives instructions on colouring the map, and contains additional gazetteer, the map seems not to ha
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Bland arbeten.
Descriptio nova totivs Graeciae per Nicolavm Sophianvm. Basle, 1544-1545, large woodcut wall-map of Greece, on eight sheets uncut, each sheet approx. 380 x 280mm., with an additional sheet with letterpress gazetteer. Of great rarity. The earliest surviving wall-map of Greece and the first significant modern map of Greece, compiled by Nickolaos Sophianos, a Greek cartographer from Corfu, born of a noble family there. This example is apparently the second state of the map. It retains the date 1544 just above the scale bar on the bottom right hand skeet, but the letterpress text in the left hand cartouche on the lower left sheet may have been reset, in whole or part, as it ends with the date “prid[ie] Calend[is]. Septembr[is]. Anno salutis publiae M D X L V”.


Sotheby's. Zacharakis, Printed Maps of Greece: Sophianos 2242; Karrow, Mapmakerers of the Sixteenth Century, 71/1.2.


ÅRRE, OLOF JACOBSSON.

Född 1731 (ej 1732) 22/3 i Härnösand, död 1809 16/7 i Täby, Husby-Lyhundra sn (Sthlm).
Lantmätare och ingenjör. Tecknare, kopparstickare och modellör.Son av rektorn Jacob Å. och Elisabeth Plantin. Student via Uppsala universitet 1748. Erhöll av rikets ständer ett stipendium för att lära sig teckna och gravera och utbildade sig i dessa ämnen för Jean Eric Rehn i början av 1750-talet. Förkovrade sig ytterligare som gravör för Per Floding från 1766. Avlade lantmäteriexamen 1754. Tjänstgjorde som ritare vid Vetenskapsakademien 1755 2/8 — 1784 4/2. Lärde sig modellera för Adrien Masreliez 1757-59. Utnämndes 1760 till föreståndare för en av ständerna 1757 grundad metall-, manufaktur-, rit- och modellskola, där han även undervisade i ornamentsritning och modellering. Ledamot av Konstakademien 1774.
Jfr G. MALMBORG, Årres ritskola, i S:t Eriks årsbok, 1932.
Bland arbeten.
F. H. AF CHAPMAN, Architectura navalis mercatoria, Sthlm 1768: försättsblad med utsikt av Stockholm från Saltsjön, 1768, kpst.
Charta öfwer Götha elfs och Trollhättans belägenhet, 1770.
Charta öfwer slussarne wid Carlsgraf och Åkerström, 1770.
Charta öfwer Trollhätte slusswerk, 1770.


Hultmark, 1944.


MORTIER, CORNELIUS.


Son till MORTIER, PIETER. 1721 ingick han kompanjonskap med Johannes Covens (se denne), och förde sin fars verksamhet vidare under firmanamnet Cóvens et Mortier. Deras kartproduktion, nämnt under Cóvens, var förvisso den viktigaste delen av verksamheten, men bokproduktionen verkar också ha varit ganska omfattande. Under viss tid samarbetade de med brodern Pierre Mortier (död 1754) som hade sin egen verksamhet, bl.a. om utgivningen av ett stort illustrerat bibelverk.


Kleerkooper.



Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734



Brunkulla, Nigritella nigra - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.


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MAKHAYEV, MIKHAIL IVANOVICH.

Biografiska uppgifter:B. Smolenskoye, Vereysky district [now Moscow region], 1716-18; d. St Petersburg, 25 Feb 1770.
Russian draughtsman and engraver. He was the son of a priest, and from 1729 he studied at the St Petersburg Naval Academy. In August 1731 he was transferred to the instrument-making department of the Academy of Sciences, where he helped to make land-surveying instruments, including theodolites (a training that was of value when he later came to sketch views of St Petersburg); he also learnt how to carve moulds for dies under Georg Unfertsagt (1701-67); and he studied drawing under the two members of the Academy staff, Ottmar Elliger II and Elias Grimmel (1703-58). In June 1743 Makhayev was made director of the cartographic and die-carving section of the Academy, and he was employed there for the rest of his life. Together with his pupils he helped to produce the Atlas rossiyskoy imperii ('Atlas of the Russian Empire'; 1740s); in addition, he provided inscriptions for diplomas for honorary members of the Academy, for porcelain snuff-boxes and for a large silver shrine at the tomb of Aleksandr Nevsky (early 1750s; St Petersburg, Hermitage).

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