Abraham Göllnitz
Abraham Göllnitz (* before 1631 in Danzig ; † after 1642) was a German travel writer and geographer of the 17th century.
Göllnitz was born in Danzig, the date of birth and death is unknown. He toured Europe and published travelogues about it from 1631 to 1643. His travelogue about France and Belgium, Ulysses belgico-gallicus from 1631 (Leiden), which was translated into French by Louis Coulon and appeared there in Paris in 1643, contained a lot of geographical and historical information and is vividly written, became particularly well-known . In 1636 he published a geographical compendium, but it is only a collection of facts that he created for the instruction of the son of the Danish Chancellor Christian Thomesen Sehested (1590-1657).
In 1642 he was in Copenhagen as secretary to King Christian IV .
Fonts
- Ulysses belgico-gallicus, fidus tibi dux et achates per Belgium hispan., Regnum Galliae, Ducat. Sabaudiae, Turinum usque Pedemontii metropolimm, Leiden 1631, 1655
- Compendium geographicum succincta methodo deformatus, Leiden 1636, 1675
In 1639 he published the Politica cristiana by Lambert Daneau (* around 1535, † around 1590) in Leiden .
Web links
- Friedrich Ratzel: Göllnitz, Abraham . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 346 f.
References and comments
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Göllnitz, Abraham |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German travel writer and geographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1631 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Danzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1642 |