Född 1732 15/1 i Valsberga, Åkers sn (Söd.), död 1797 4/11 på Bråtorp i ovann. sn.
Kommissionslantmätare. Kartgravör. Son av kronolänsmannen Olof Å. och Maria Ekström. Student vid Uppsala universitet 1754. Blev sedan enligt egen utsago »informator hos löjtnant Ridderhjerta, dels ock vid Kungsör hos slottsinspektoren Jesper Petrseus att informera dess dotterson Jesper Gillberg, hvarmed fortsattes till 1756. År 1757 antog jag station hos akademigravören Åkerman, hvilken jag hjälpte med gravyr af bokstäfver, så att jag fanns skicklig gravera alla namn, som stå på den första här i riket utgifna jordgloben med en fots diameter, fast jag ej fick hedern att mitt namn sattes på globen» (EKSTRAND). Kommissionslantmätare 1781. Ägde Bråtorp.
Bland arbeten.
A. BERCH, Oeconomisk beskrifning öfver Wadsbo härad uti Westergöthland och Skaraborgs höfdingedöme, diss., resp. G. F. Bergman, Uppsala 1759: karta över Vadsbo härad.
Karta över Tveta härad i Småland. 17601.
Stockholms magazin, 1780: striden vid Brunnbäck jämte karta över Grytnäs och Folkärna socknar, efter G. Halstenson 1652.
Svenskarna under Wilhelm Carpelan förstöra den preussiska flottiljen i Frisches Haff 1759, efter C. Rutensparre, kpst.
Hultmark, 1944.
(1663-1724. Född i Kamlach, död i Nürnberg.
Tysk kartograf. Han fick sin första undervisning hos jesuiterna i sin hemstad och skulle ha blivit munk men gick istället över till den evangeliska kyrkan. Bosatte sig i Nürnberg där han 1687 blev notarie. Som hobby började han på lediga stunder att kopiera kartor. Det visade sig snart att han hade betydande talang som kartritare, och 1702 grundlade han sitt eget kartförlag. Han fick snart rykte som den mest betydande av tyska kartografer, och hans kartor nådde en stor publik. Totalt ritade han 200 olika landkartor, något färre jordglober, astronomiska instrument och andra mekaniska arbeten. Hans stora världsatlas, 'Grosser Atlas ueber die ganze Welt', kom 1716 i 126 blad, och 'Atlas methodicus' år 1719 i 18 blad. Hans son, Johann Christoph Homann, fortsatte verksamheten efter faderns död.
Johann Baptist Homann (20 March 1664 – 1 July 1724) was a German geographer and cartographer, who made maps of the Americas.
Life
Homann was born in Oberkammlach near Kammlach in the Electorate of Bavaria. ...
Bland arbeten.
Grosser Atlas ueber die ganze Welt.
Atlas methodicus.
fl. 1597.
Little is known of Wytfliet except that he was a native of Brabant, but there is no doubt about the importance of his only atlas, which was the first one printed to deal exclusively with America. Although its title indicated it to be a 'supplement to Ptolemy', Part 1 covered the history of the discovery of America and its geography and natural history and Part II consisted entirely of contemporary maps of America and a world map based on Mercator.
Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.
Ekebyholm - Nay 1881.
Keere, Pieter van den [Kaerius, Petrus]
Biografiska uppgifter:1571-c. 1646.
Pieter van den Keere was one of a number of refugees who fled from religious persecution in the Low Countries between the years 1570 and 1 590. He moved to London in 1584 with his sister who married Jodocus Hondius, also a refugee there, and through Hondius he undoubtedly learned his skills as an engraver and cartographer. In the course of a long working life he engraved a large number of individual maps for prominent cartographers of the day but he also produced an Atlas of the Netherlands (1617-22) and county maps of the British Isles which have become known as Miniature Speeds, a misnomer which calls for some explanation.
In about 1599 he engraved plates for 44 maps of the English and Welsh counties, the regions of Scotland and the Irish provinces. The English maps were based on Saxton, the Scottish on Ortelius and the Irish on the famous map by Boazio. These maps were not published at once in book form but there is evidence which suggests a date of issue (in Amsterdam) between 1605 and 1610 although at least one authority believes they existed only in proof form until 1617 when Willem Blaeu issued them with a Latin edition of Camden's Britannia. At this stage two maps were added, one of the British Isles and the other of Yorkshire, the latter derived from Saxton. To confuse things further the title page of this edition is signed 'Guilielmus noster Janssonius', which is the Latinized form of Blaeu's name commonly used up to 1619.
At some time after this the plates came into the possession of Speed's publishers, George Humble, who in 1627, the year in which he published a major edition of Speed's Atlas, also issued the Keere maps as a pocket edition. For these he used the descriptive texts of the larger Speed maps and thereafter they were known as Miniature Speeds. In fact, of the 63 maps in the Atlas, 40 were from the original van den Keere plates, reworked, 16 were reduced from Speed and 7 were additional. The publication was very popular and there were further re-issues up to 1676.
