Atlas Saxonicus novus

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The Atlas Saxonicus novus (New Saxon Atlas), also known as Schenk's Atlas for short , is an important Central German atlas from the 18th century.

Emergence

After the death of the Saxon-Polish geographer Adam Friedrich Zürner in 1742 , some of the maps of the Electorate of Saxony drawn by him and his conductors were corrected by Paul Trenckmann and his son Johann Paul Trenckmann. The cards, which are only available as unique pieces, were presented by the electoral secret council and conference minister Johann Christian von Hennicke , who had become ingloriously known through opaque shops , to the publishing house of Peter Schenk junior, which was also based in Leipzig during the trade fair . available for print in Amsterdam . Almost all of the Saxon regional maps of Zürners were engraved there and published for the first time in 1752 as Atlas Saxonicus novus .

New editions

There were several editions of this atlas until the 19th century, which differed slightly in the number and arrangement of the individual map sheets.

Hans Beschorner has listed the differences between the individual atlases of the edition years 1752, 1753, 1757, 1760, 1775 and 1811 in his contribution Some comments on the so-called Schenk's Atlas in the New Archive for Saxon History 24 (1903), p. 329ff. Beschorner found that the map stock of all six editions is the same and that a complete atlas consisted of 49 maps including a so-called signpost .

literature

  • Peter Wiegand: Bella cartographica. The Counts of Schönburg, Peter Schenk's 'Atlas Saxonicus Novus' and the maps of the Zürnerschule . In: New Archive for Saxon History 78 (2007), pp. 123–188.