MASSA [MASSART, MASSAERT], ISAAC.
Baptized October 7, 1586 in Haarlem, died 1643.
Dutch cartographer and traveller to Moscow.
Isaac Abrahamszoon Massa was a Dutch grain trader, traveller and diplomat, the envoy to Muscovy, author of memoirs witnessing the Time of Troubles and the maps of Eastern Europe and Siberia. Massa's experience in and knowledge of Muscovy transformed him into a Dutch 'Kremlinologist.' The Isaac Massa Foundation in Groningen aims to stimulate scientific and cultural contacts between the Russian Federation and the Netherlands.
Isaac Massa was born in a wealthy silk merchant's family that relocated from Liege to Haarlem before his birth. His ancestors could have been Italian huguenots who fled their homeland in the beginning of the Reformation. The family surname was also known as Massart, Massaert.
In 1601 Isaac left Haarlem for Moscow to assist the family trade. Isaac has been witness to the second half of Boris Godunov's reign that evolved into a civil war now known as the Time of Troubles. He survived the capture of Moscow by False Dmitriy I and left Russi...
Bland arbeten.
Plans of Moscow 1610, 1618;
N. Russia 1612 and
South Russia, used by Blaeu & Jansson.
Tooley.
1750-1826.
Officer and gunnery chief in the galler fleet. Served as lieutenant in the amphibious corps' Swedish and Finnish squadrons. Was aboard the frigate Svarta örn in a 1781 convoy expedition to the Mediterranean. Member of learned societies at home and abroad.
Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.
Bokhandlare och kartutgivare. Omnämnd 1658 och 1664. Gav bl.a. ut atlaser med kartor av Nicolas Sanson d.ä. (se denne).
Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.
Album Vilmorin 1881. - F. Godard.
