SÖK KARTOGRAFER, GRAVÖRER M.FL.

ÅKERMAN, ANDERS.

Född 1721 19/5 i Halla sn (Söd.), död 1778 3/2 i Uppsala (Hel. Tref. förs.).
Tecknare, kopparstickare, etsare, kartgravör och globfabrikör. Son av snickaren och svarvaren Olof Andersson och Ingeborg Simonsdotter. Lärde sig gravera för Carl Erik Bergquist i Stockholm i början av 1740-talet. Student vid Uppsala universitet 1747. Utnämndes 1758 till gravör vid Vetenskapssocieteten i Uppsala och uppfördes följ. år på akademistaten. Medlem av det första svenska geografiska sällskapet 'Kosmografiska sällskapet' 1758. Var sällskapets gravör. Grundade 1759 en verkstad för tillverkning av glober i Uppsala. De minsta globerna var så små att de kunde användas som 'fickglober'. 'Himmelsgloben' bestod av ett sfäriskt skal som var itudelat för att användas som fodral runt jordgloben. Då staden 1766 30/4 härjades av en förödande eldsvåda, förlorade Å. »60 par glob-klot». Efter Åkermans död övertogs rörelsen av Fredrik Akrel, som 1779 flyttade verkstaden till Stockholm. — Utgav Atlas juvenilis, Uppsala 1768, med 20 kolor. kartor; 2:a uppl. utkom 1774 och innehöll 30 kolor. kartblad, samtl. graverade ...
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{M. STRÖMER], Läran om klotet och spheriska trigonometrien, Sthlm 1759: 9 tab. med geometriska figurer, etsn.
Den swenska Mercurius, 1758: karta över tyska kriget, 1758.
N. BIELKE, Rese-charta öfwer Södermanlands höfdingedöme, 1765.
Hydrografisk karta över Finska viken, 1768, 2 blad.

Hultmark, 1944 m.fl.

NICOLAUS GERMANUS.

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.

Andry, Charles-Louis-François

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Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines.

Vägvisare för XI Olympiaden i Berlin - 1936

Heraldischer Atlas, Tavla 24 - H. G. Ströhl 1899.

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.
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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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