Född 1790 28/1 i Stockholm (Klara), död 1822 26/3 i samma stad (Hovförs.).
Kartgravör. Son av hovkamreraren Johan Magnus P. och Beata Elisabeth Bjurman. Elev av kartgravören Carl Gustaf Lundgren 1810 samt vid Konstakademien från 1811.
Bland arbeten.
N. G. WERMING, Kartor öfver svenska städer, u. o. [1806-19]: 40 blad, bl. a. Belägenheten omkring Kongelf 1808. 1809 års riksgräns emellan Sverige och Ryssland. Belägenheten af Säter 1811. Belägenheten af Strömstad 1814. Belägenheten af Sköfde 1816. Plan och läge af Stockholm 1818.
Archiv af nyare resor till lands och sjöss, I-VI, 1810-11: ett 10-tal kartor och planer över bl. a. Kanarieöarna och Konstantinopel.
Planes et cartes á 1’histoire universelle, 1811, kpst.
E. G. GEIJER, De pugna Pultavensi, diss., resp. C. F. Wrede, Uppsala 1818: karta över Karl XII:s marscher 1700-09 samt plan över Poltava.
Hultmark, 1944.
June 14, 1726 - December 16, 1798.
Was a Welsh naturalist and antiquary.
The Pennants were a Welsh gentry family from the parish of Whitford, Flintshire, who had built up a modest estate at Bychton by the seventeenth century. In 1724 Thomas' father, David Pennant, also inherited the neighbouring Downing estate from a cousin, considerably augmenting the family's fortune. Downing Hall, where Thomas was born in the 'yellow room', became the main Pennant residence.
Pennant received his early education at Wrexham grammar school, before moving to Thomas Croft's school in Fulham in 1740. In 1744 entered Queen's College, Oxford, later moving to Oriel College. Like many students from a wealthy background, he left Oxford without taking a degree, although in 1771 his work as a zoologist was recognised with an honorary degree.
At the age of twelve, Pennant later recalled, he had been inspired with a passion for natural history through being presented with Francis Willughby's Ornithology. A tour in Cornwall in 1746-1747, where he met the antiquary...
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...
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.
Karta öfver Stockholm. - 1904.
Europa. - de Jode.
