Bernard Wapowski

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Map of Poland from 1507 (detail)

Bernard Wapowski (born November 22, 1450 in Wapowce near Przemyśl , † November 25, 1535 in Cracow ) was a Polish cartographer and historian.

Wapowski (Vapovius) was Canon of Cracow, Secretary to the King and Chamberlain to the Pope. He was a fellow student and friend of Nicolaus Copernicus , who helped him with the production of his Poland map. This map is the first representation of the Polish territory following the principles of modern cartography. Wapowski created a total of four cartographic works, namely maps of

  • Poland,
  • North and South Sarmatia and
  • Scandinavia.

All of these maps have been lost except for fragments, especially since the holdings of the printer Unger there were destroyed in the great fire in Kraków in 1528 during Wapowski's lifetime.

Wapowski wrote a chronicle of Poland until 1535, but it was not printed and is only partially preserved. Parts of it were used in the writings of Martin Cromer and Marcin Bielski .

In 2009 the lunar crater Wapowski was named after him by the IAU .

Works

  • De bello a Sigismundo I Rege Poloniae contra Moscos gesto A. MDVIII (Krakau 1891, ed. J. Korzeniowski Scriptores Polonicarum Rerum , vol. 15)
  • Carmen seu Panegyris elegiacum in Victoria Sigismundi I Regis de Moschis (Rome 1515)
  • Oratio coram […] Sigismundo domino rege Poloniae invictissimo in reditu Suae maiestatis ex Lithuania […] habita (Krakow 1523)

Cards:

  • Tabula Sarmatiae (Krakow 1526–1528)
  • (with Marcus Beneventanus) Tabula Moderna Polonie, Ungarie, Boemie, Germanie, Russie, Lithvanie

literature

  • Karol Buczek: The history of Polish cartography from the 15th to the 18th century. Warsaw 1966, pp. 32-40, plates 8 u. 12-14
  • E. Schnayder: Bernhard Wapowski's Lost Maps of Poland, Sarmatias and Scandinavia. In: Imago Mundi Vol. 26, (1972), pp. 76-77
  • Short Slavic biography. Wiesbaden 1958, sv Wapowski, Bernat

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personal data
SURNAME Wapowski, Bernard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vapovius, Bernardus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1450
PLACE OF BIRTH Wapowce near Przemyśl
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1535
Place of death Krakow