SÖK KARTOGRAFER, GRAVÖRER M.FL.

MÜNSTER, SEBASTIAN.

1489-1552.
Tysk kosmograf. Född i Ingelheim i Hessen, död i Basel. Studerade matematik, teologi och klassiska språk i Heidelberg och Tübingen. Blev senare fransiskanermunk och föreläste vid olika läroanstalter tills han 1529 utnämndes till professor i hebreiska vid universitetet i Basel. Münster bedrev ett betydande författarskap och hade rykte om sig som den tidens mest lärde, speciellt när det gällde hebreisk litteratur. I hans klassiska studier hade även matematik och kosmografi en naturlig plats. Hans första geografiska verk, som publicerades 1530, var ett band med upplysningar till en nyutgåva av en gammal Tysklandskarta, utarbetad av kardinal Nicolas Cusanus (se denne). 1532 slutförde han ett större kartverk: 'Typus Cosmographicus Universalis'. Senare följde 'Geographia Universalis, Vetus et Nova', (5 utgåvor 1540-52) och 'Cosmographia, Beschreibung aller Lender' (1544, och en rad senare utgåvor). Böckerna är rikt illustrerade med kartor, stadskartor och andra textillustrationer i träsnitt. Det är framförallt dess...
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Typus Cosmographicus Universalis.
Geographia Universalis, Vetus et Nova.
Cosmographia, Beschreibung aller Lender.

Allg. d. Biogr. - Bagrow.Sveriges sjökartor - A. Hedin.

Bagge, Jonas Samuel.

Född i Uddevalla 1 juli 1803, död 4 januari 1870.
fysiker. Född i Uddevalla d. 1 juli 1803. Föräldrar: rådmannen Daniel Benjamin Bagge, tillhörande en äldre gren af släktets, och Anna Charlotta von Schoultz.
Promoverad filosofie doktor i Lund 1829, utnämndes B. följande året till adjunkt i fysik vid Teknologiska institutet i Stockholm. 1838 utnämndes han till lärare i praktisk mekanik vid bergsskolan i Falun, med titel af professor. År 1853 förordnades han till chef på järnkontorets mekaniska stat och företog 1855 på uppdrag af bergskollegium en resa till Frankrike för att vid den där föranstaltade industriutställningen taga kännedom om järnhandteringen i främmande länder och på samma gång göra sig underrättad om de i Frankrike befintliga undervisningsanstalter för denna industrigren. B. utgaf bl. a. Elementarkurs i fysiken, såsom förberedelse till studium af fysiska teknologien 1835. Ledamot af Vet.-akad. 1857. Död d. 4 jan. 1870.
Gift 1836 med Anna Margareta Ödman.
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'Karta öfver Fahlu Stad.'

Overton, Henry.

(fl. 1706-64)
Henry Overton acquired the stock of his fathers plates in 1707. His map Provincia Oxoniensis is a close copy of a Jansson 1644 map with the addition of roads. It appeared in some of Overton’s composite atlas of 1716.
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Provincia Oxoniensis

Sotheby's

Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734

Strimsporre, Linaria repens - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.

Dankerts, Cornelis the elder.

Biografiska uppgifter:1603-56
JUSTUS DANKERTS (son) 1635-1701
The Dankerts family, of whom the above were the most important, was very large and ramifying having had a lot of members who were active in engraving on an artistic level. In this short view, however, we are dealing mainly with those who took part in the atlas production.
The family’s roots can be traced back to Cornelis Danckerts (1536-1595), a carpenter in Amsterdam. From his marriage with Lijsbet Cornelisdr two sons are known: Cornelis Danckerts de Rij (1561-1634) and Danckert Cornelisz (ca. 1580-1625). Cornelis and his descendants called themselves Danckerts de Rij. Danckerts Cornelisz who is at the root of the line we are now interested in was first a skipper then a stone merchant. He married Lijstbeth Jansdr, shortly after the turn of the century. Several members of his branch were well-known engravers-etchers, mapmakers and printsellers (Keuning, 1955). Danckert Cornelisz had two sons: Cornelis Danckerts (1603-1656) and Dancker Danckerts (1614-?).
Cornelis the elder brother established himself as an engraver, map- and artprint producer, printer and publisher in Amsterdam in the early 1630s. His shop was flourishing under his, the father’s and his sons’ and grandsons’ direction in the second half of the 17th century as far as 1717 when the grandson Cornelis died. (Hereafter for distinguishing Cornelis the firm’s founder and Cornelis, the grandson, Cornelis (I) and Cornelis (II) will be used, respectively.) Cornelis (I) was an eminent engraver producing a number of single-sheet maps and wall maps. Besides his own publications, he was working for reknown personalities of the time such as the famous John Speed (1552-1629), historian and mapmaker, ”the father of the English atlases” or for Petrus Bertius (1565-1629), the illustrious geography professor at Leiden University (Tooley, 1979).
At Cornelis (I)’ death (1656), the elder son, Dancker (1634-1666) took the shop over then at his early passing the younger brother Justus (1635-1701) who had been a stone merchant succeded his brother in direction of the firm. (As distinguishing marks (I) will be used at Justus, the father’s name and (II) at the son’s.) The Danckerts family’s map producing and -publishing office had its apogee at the time of Justus (I) and of his three sons Theodorus (I) (1663-1727), Cornelis (II) (1664-1717) and Justus (II) (?-1692).
Between 1669-1701 their shop was run in the ”Calverstraet in the Danckbaerheyt” (Danckbaerheyt=Thankfulness). Cornelis (II) married Geertrui Magnus, the daughter of a famous contemporary Amsterdam bookbinder, Albert Magnus and moved into the house of Magnus’ widow on the ”Nieuwendijk in de Atlas”. (Albert Magnus had died some years before.) Thus after 1696 two print shops of the Danckerts were being run in Amsterdam and from that time onwards on different publications, also on maps and on atlas’ title- and index-pages, Cornelis (II) used this new address.
The Danckerts’s firm’s closing down was gradually taking place. The first harder breaking could be caused by the general depression in 1713 when Justus (I)’ heirs decided to sell a part of the map and atlas stock with lots of copperplates. The final, full stopping occured at the time of the last surviving brother, Theodorus (I) in 1727 when the remaining estate was also sold. The copperplates of the maps were bought by Reiner and Josua Ottens, first-rate Amsterdam map- and atlas publishers in the first part of the 18th century. Following the general custom of the time, the Ottens erased the Danckerts names and addresses replacing them with their own

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