![]() He also aided Welser in hisĮdition of the Peutinger Table in 1598. Caesaris omnia quae extant, Leiden, Raphelingen,ġ5Q3), and the Aurei saeculi imago, sive Germanorum veterum Frisio-HoU.), a record of a journey in Belgium and the Partes (published at the Plantin press, and reprinted in Hegenitius, His Parergon (a series of maps illustrating ancient history, sacredĪnd secular), and his Itinerarium per nonnullas Galliae Bclgicae In 1584 he brought out his Nomcnclator Plolemaicus, Press at Antwerp and republished as Thesaurus geographic us Geography by his Synonyma geographic (issued by the Plantin In 1 57S he laid the basis of a critical treatment of ancient Of Arius Montanus, who vouched for his orthodoxy (hisįamily, as early as 1535, had fallen under suspicion of Protestantism). Geographer to the king of Spain, Philip II., on the recommendation (also in 1573, published by Philippe Galle of Antwerp) hisĭeorum dearumque capita. By this time he had formedĪ fine collection of coins, medals and antiques, and this produced Seventeen supplementary maps under the title of Additamentum Lord of Cleydael and Aertselaer: most of these were printed Through the agents, of Ortehus' friend and patron, Gilles Hooftman, Maps of European lands, and of Asia, Africa, Tartary andĮgypt, gathered together by the wealth and enterprise, and Immediate precursor and prototype was a collection of thirty eight Text was a monument of rare erudition and industry. Errors, of course, abound, both in general conceptionsĪnd in detail thus South America is very faulty in outline,Īnd in Scotland the Grampians lie between the Forth and theĬlyde but, taken as a whole, this atlas with its accompanying Himself), and many discrepancies of delineation or nomenclature Most of the maps wereĪdmittedly reproductions (a list of 87 authors is given by Ortelius ![]() In 1598 and several others were published subsequently, for Of 1572 twenty-five editions came out before Ortelius' death Three Latin editions of this (besides aįlemish, a French and a German) appeared before the end In 1570 (May 20) was issued, by Gilles Coppens de Diest atĪntwerp, Ortelius' Theatrum Orhis Terrarum, the " first modernĪtlas " (of 53 maps). Perhaps a map of Asia, before the appearance of his great work. ![]() In 1565 a plan of Britenburg Castle on the coast of Holland, and In 1564 he completed a mappemonde, which afterwardsĪppeared in the Thcalriim. Of that atlas or Thcalre of the World by which he becameįamous. He now devoted himself, at his friend's suggestion, to the compilation Towards the career of a scientific geographer in particular He seems to have been attracted, largely by Mercator's influence, With Gerhard Kremer (Mercator) to Trier, Lorraine and Poitiers, Beginning as a map-engraver (in 1547 heĮnters the Antwerp gild of St Luke as af seller van Kartell), hisĮarly career is that of a business man, and most of his journeysīefore 1560 are for commercial purposes (such as his yearly He travelled extensively in western Europe, especially in the Netherlands south and west Germany ( e.g. He was of German origin, his family coming from Augsburg. ORTELIUS ( Ortels, Wortels), ABRAHAM, next to Mercator the greatest geographer of his age, was born at Antwerp on the 14th of April 1527, and died in the same city on the 4th of July 1598. ![]()
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