SÖK KARTOGRAFER, GRAVÖRER M.FL.

SEUTTER, MATTHAEUS .

1678-1757. Född och död i Augsburg.
Tysk kartograf, son till en guldsmed. Hans föräldrar ville att han skulle bli ölbryggare men han såg till att bli lärling i kartgravering hos J.B. Homann i Nürnberg 1697. Efter lärlingstiden återvände Seutter till sin hemstad Augsburg och började arbeta hos Jeremias Wolff på dennes förlag. Från och med år 1707 arbetade han självständigt som kartgravör i Augsburg. 1710 började han ge ut kartor under eget namn och 1728 var han en namnkunnig kartograf. 1730/1732 fick han titeln 'Kaiserlicher Geograph', kejserlig geograf. Totalt skapade Seutter och hans medhjälpare uppemot 400-500 landskartor, stadsplaner och översikter, genealogiska och kronologiska tabeller m.m.. Av atlasverk kom 'Atlas geographicus' 1725 med 46 kartor, 'Atlas novus indicibus instructus' kom ca. 1730 i Augsburg och Wien. En utökad utgåva av den senare med 131 kartor kom 1734/1735 och slutligen utkom ca. 1744 en 'Atlas minor' med 64 kartor i ett mindre format. I atlasen från 1734/1735 delade Seutter upp kartorna i rutor och lät utarbeta stadsreg...
Bland arbeten.
- Atlas Geographicus oder Accurate Vorstellung der Ganzen Welt, 1725
- Atlas Compendiosus oder die ganze Welt in den nothwendigsten Geographischen Charten
- Atlas Compendiosus Scholasticus
- Atlas Novus Indicubus Instructus, 1728
- Grosser Atlas, 1734
- Atlas Minor, 1744

SEUTTER, M. Nova et accurata delineatio Ingriae et Careliae... Matthaeus Seutter,... Aug. Vind. [engraved map]. Augsburg, [c.1744].
The Seutter edition of the Grimmel map of Carelia and Ingria.
SEUTTER, M. Teshenije Nevy reky... = Fluwius Newa e lacu Ladoga Petropolin... [engraved map] Augsburg, [c.1744].
The Seutter-version of the Grimmel map of Ingria. [Kartan över Neva från Ladoga till St Petersburg].

Allg. d. Biogr.Christian Sandler: Seutter, Matthäus. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, S. 70–72.Christian Sandler: Matthäus Seutter (1678–1757) und seine Landkarten. 3. Reprintauflage. Bad Langensalza: Verlag Rockstuhl, 2009 (1. Auflage: 1894). ISBN 978-3-936030-03-7Peter H. Meurer: Das Druckprivileg für Matthäus Seutter. In: Cartographica Helvetica Heft 8 (1993) S. 32–36 VolltextMichael Ritter: Die Augsburger Landkartenverlage Seutter, Lotter und Probst. In: Cartographica Helvetica Heft 25 (2002) S. 2–10 Volltext

Caspar Henne(n)berg(er) (sometimes also 'Kaspar'.

1529 – 29 February 1600.
Was a German Lutheran pastor, historian and cartographer.
Hennenberger was born in a Franconian place given as Erlich (Erlichhausen?) and started to study Lutheran divinity at the University of Königsberg in 1550. In 1554 he began to work at the congregation of Georgenau and in Domnau. Probably in 1561 he moved to Mühlhausen, where he worked as a Lutheran Pastor for the next 29 years.
With the patronage of Duke Albert of Prussia Hennenberger published the first detailed map of Prussia in 1576, the book 'Kurze und wahrhaftige Beschreibung des Landes zu Preussen' (short and truthful description of the land Prussia) in 1584 and 'Erklärung der preußischen größeren Landtafeln oder Mappen' (explanation of the larger Prussian maps) in 1594.
In 1590 Hennenberger became the Pastor of the Large Hospital at Königsberg-Löbenicht, where he died in 1600. He was buried in the Hospital's Church.

Bland arbeten.
Kurze und wahrhaftige Beschreibung des Landes zu Preussen.
Erklärung der preußischen größeren Landtafeln oder Mappen.

CLUVER[IO] PHILIP[PE].

1580-1622. Född i Danzig, död i Leiden.
Tysk geograf. I sin ungdom uppehöll han sig vid det polska hovet, och utarbetade bl.a. en karta över Italien. Senare reste han till Leiden för att studera juridik, men påbörjade istället historisk-antikvariska och geografiska studier. I flera år gjorde han resor till England, Skottland, Frankrike och Italien, varefter han slog sig ned i Leiden för gott. Där utgav han en rad historisk-geografiska verk och fick 1616 titeln 'Geographus academicus'. Bland hans verk kan nämnas 'Germaniae antique' (1616), ett motsvarande verk om Italien, och 'Introductionis in universam geographiam' som första gången utkom 1624 och som sedan trycktes i flera nyutgåvor.
Samarbetade med Blaeu 1631.
Geographer of Dantzig, specialised in Near East and Ancient Geography, settled in Leyden.

Bland arbeten.
Foederatae Rhaetiae descriptio (1600)
Geographicus Academicus, Leyden 1616.
Intro. in Universam Geographicam 1629.
Rhaetia published Visscher 1630.
Germaniae antiquae libri 1631.

Tooley.R.deT.Allg. d. Biogr.

Karta öfver Stockholm. - 1904.

'Hemisphaerii Australis...' - L. Euler 1760.

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 have been routinely bound with the book, but rather was issued separately, hence its rarity.
Karrow records no example of the book with the map, however, an example in the Library of Congress is described as having the map(the British Library example does not), and this example almost certainly owes its survival, and fine condition, to having been bound in the book, as the page size is very similar to the BL example.
Karrow notes that Oporinus commissioned a series of town views to accompany the map. Visible along the lower border is the upper border of a frame where these views might have been placed, but this additional panel has been masked off in printing.
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.)

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