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Biografier.

ÅRRE, OLOF JACOBSSON.

Född 1731 (ej 1732) 22/3 i Härnösand, död 1809 16/7 i Täby, Husby-Lyhundra sn (Sthlm).
Lantmätare och ingenjör. Tecknare, kopparstickare och modellör.Son av rektorn Jacob Å. och Elisabeth Plantin. Student via Uppsala universitet 1748. Erhöll av rikets ständer ett stipendium för att lära sig teckna och gravera och utbildade sig i dessa ämnen för Jean Eric Rehn i början av 1750-talet. Förkovrade sig ytterligare som gravör för Per Floding från 1766. Avlade lantmäteriexamen 1754. Tjänstgjorde som ritare vid Vetenskapsakademien 1755 2/8 — 1784 4/2. Lärde sig modellera för Adrien Masreliez 1757-59. Utnämndes 1760 till föreståndare för en av ständerna 1757 grundad metall-, manufaktur-, rit- och modellskola, där han även undervisade i ornamentsritning och modellering. Ledamot av Konstakademien 1774.
Jfr G. MALMBORG, Årres ritskola, i S:t Eriks årsbok, 1932.
Bland arbeten.
F. H. AF CHAPMAN, Architectura navalis mercatoria, Sthlm 1768: försättsblad med utsikt av Stockholm från Saltsjön, 1768, kpst.
Charta öfwer Götha elfs och Trollhättans belägenhet, 1770.
Charta öfwer slussarne wid Carlsgraf och Åkerström, 1770.
Charta öfwer Trollhätte slusswerk, 1770.


Hultmark, 1944.

Plancius, Petrus.

1562-1622.
Plancius was a theologian and minister of the Dutch Reformed Church who fled with many of his compatriots from religious persecution in Flanders to settle in Amsterdam in 1585. There he became interested in navigation and cartography and, being fortunate enough to have access to nautical charts recently brought from Portugal, he was soon recognized as an expert on the shipping routes to India. He was interested, too, in the idea of a North East passage until the failure of Willem Barentsz's third voyage in 1597 seemed to preclude the possibility of such a route. In 1602 he was appointed cartographer to the new Dutch East India Company.
Although Plancius produced no atlases his individual maps and charts, over 100 in all, exercised much influence on the work of other cartographers at the turn of the century. His very large wall map of the world dated 1592 was of particular significance.

MARTINES, JOAN.


Katalansk kartograf som emigrerade till Sicilien (1583). Utgav åtminstone en atlas.


RdeT.


Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.


'Le Royaume de France et Les Conquêtes de Louis le Grand.' - Steinberger, Lotter, ca 1770.

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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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