Stor familj av konstnärer och tryckare verksamma i Augsburg.
Johann Balthasar Probst 1504 - 1570.
Georg Balthasar Probst 1673 - 1748.
Johann Friedrich Probst 1719 - 1781.
Jean Michel Probst 28/8 1721 - 1/8 1771.
Georg Balthasar Probst 1732 - 1801.
Johann Michael Probst d.y. 1757 - 1809.
Fransk geograf under mitten av 1700-talet. Han var ursprungligen ingenjör men fick titeln kunglig geograf hos Ludvig XV. 1733 gav han ut 'Théatre de la guerre en Allemagne' som kom i flera utgåvor, 1784 'Nouvel Atlas portatif', 1757 'Recueil des côtes maritimes de la France' och 1760 'Topographie des chemins de l'Angleterre'. Mer kulturhistoriskt betingat är 'Curiosités de Londres' (1765) och 'Curiosités de Paris' i 3 band (1778).
Bland arbeten.
Théatre de la guerre en Allemagne.
Nouvel Atlas portatif.
Recueil des côtes maritimes de la France.
Topographie des chemins de l'Angleterre.
Curiosités de Londres.
Curiosités de Paris.
Nouv. biogr. gen. - Phillips.
Often called 'Donis' from a misapprehension of the title 'Donnus' or 'Donus' an abbreviated form of 'Dominus.
A fifteenth-century cartographer, place of birth, and date of birth and death unknown. The first allusion to him of authentic date is an injunction of Duke Borso d'Este (15 March, 1466) to his referendary and privy counselor, Ludovico Casella, at Ferrara, to have the 'Cosmographia of Don Nicolò' thoroughly examined and then to determine a recompense for it. The duke, on the thirtieth of the same month, called upon his treasurers for 100 florins in gold 'to remit as a mark of his appreciation to Donnus Nicolaus Germanus for his excellent book entitled 'Cosmographia''. On 8 April, 1466, the duke again drew thirty golden florins to present to the Rev. Nicolaus, who 'in addition to that excellent Cosmography' (ultra illud excellens Cosmographie opus) had dedicated to the duke a calendar made to cover many years to come ('librum tacuini multorum annorum'). The 'Cosmographia' as preserved in the Biblioth...
FISCHER, Nicolaus Germanus in Entdeckungen der Normannen in Amerika (Freiburg, 1902), 75-90, 113 sqq. (Eng. tr., London, 1903), 72-86, 108 sqq.
Vägvisare för XI Olympiaden i Berlin - 1936
'Stockholms skärgård. Svenska Stenarna - Sandhamn.' - Stockholm 1935.