Tobias Conrad Lotter

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Tobias Conrad Lotter (* 1717 ; † July 14, 1777 funeral) was a copper engraver , cartographer and publisher in Augsburg .

Life

Magnus Ducatus Lithuania, Tobias Lotter, 1780

Lotter, son of an Augsburg baker and city guardsman, had been working as a map engraver in his workshop since 1740, the year he married his eldest daughter, Matthäus Seutter, and was his most productive employee. Largely on his own responsibility (but still under Seutter), Lotter created the 'Atlas Minor', which was created between 1740 and 1744. Lotter's atlas ( Atlas minor. Praecipua orbis terrarum imperia, regna et provincias, Germania potissimum tabelli 80 exactae delineatis sistens usui militiae ducum ac peregrinantium maxime accommodatus opera ) consists of 63 maps - mostly engraved by him - from Seutter's Atlas Minor, in which he had inserted his name in the lower margin as the publisher's address, and 16 cards newly created by Lotter.

After Seutter's death in 1757, his son Albrecht Karl (1722–1762) continued the company alone. When he also died a few years later, about half of the publishing stock was acquired by Tobias Conrad Lotter and the also closely related art publisher Johann Michael Probst the Elder (1727–1776). Both removed the Seutter name from most of the original records and replaced it with their own. With the support of his sons Matthäus Albrecht (1741–1810), Georg Friedrich (1744–1801) and Gustav Conrad (1746–1776), Tobias Conrad Lotter was able to build on the economic success and professional reputation of his father-in-law. However, the gradual decline of the company began under the management of the two eldest sons. After Matthäus Albrecht's death (1810) it sank under his sons Gabriel (1776–1857) and Georg Friedrich (1787–1864) until it became completely irrelevant in the middle of the 19th century. The publishing legacy of Tobias Conrad Lotter's son Gustav Conrad, who died early, was acquired in 1789 by the Augsburg art publisher Johann Martin Will and his son-in-law Johann Walch , who thus laid the foundation for his own up-and-coming map publishing company.

Works

  • Africa: Concinnata Secundum Observationes Membror. Acad. Shelf. Scientiarum et nonnullorum aliorum, et iuxta recentissimas annotationes . Augsburg, 1756 ( digitized edition )
  • Frisiae Dominium vernacule Friesland: Verdeeld in de Hoofd-deelen van Oostergoo, Westergoo and Sevenwolden, As also of the XI cities Zynde still onderscheiden in XXX Grietenijen; met privilege . Lotter, Aug. Vind. after 1758 ( digitized edition )
  • Borussiae Regnum: complectens Circulos Sambiensem, Natangiensem et Hockerlandiae Nec non Borussia Polonica exhibens Palatinatus Culmiensem, Marienburgensem, Pomerelliae et Varmiae Cum adjacentibus aliis Provinciis . Augsburg, 1759 ( digitized edition )
  • Carte Générale De Toute L'Europe: Divisée Selon L'Etendue De Ses Principaux Etats, Subdivisée En Leurs Principales Provinces; Representée Sur Six Feuilles D'Après Les Meilleures Cartes Qui Ont Paruës Jusqu'A Present . Augsburg, 1782 ( digitized edition )
  • Carte Geographique representant la Mer Mediterranée ou la seconde Partie Du Théatre De La Guerre Entre Les Russes Et Les Turcs: C'est à dire Les Roiaumes, Les Etâts, Les Provinces Et Les Diverses Isles Situées Dans La Dite Mer, avec La Mer Noire ou Pont Euxine et a Partie de la Province Georgie en Asia . Augsburg, 1770 ( digitized edition )
  • Circulus Suevicus: in quo Ducatus Wirtenbergensis cum reliquis Statibus Et Provinciis; Cu. Size et Pr. SRI Vicariat. in part. Rheni, Svev. et Juris Franconici . Augsburg, 1756 ( digitized edition )
  • Europe: Regnorum, Provinciarum Regionum, in iisdemque Religionis Christianae; morum artiumque cultu omnium orbis terrarum partium praestantissima . Augsburg, 1756 ( digitized edition )
  • L 'Isle De Corse: avec les differents Districts, appartenante à La Republique De Genes, mais divisée et soulevée depuis plusieurs années . Augsburg, 1764 ( digitized edition )
  • Mappa Geographica exhibens Principatum Nassoviae: cum singulis adpertinentibus Comitatibus, Dominiis ac Praefecturis, nec non confiniis intra Flumina Lahnum, Rhenum et Moenum . Augsburg, between 1756–77 ( digitized edition )
  • Nova Tabula Geographica exhibens Ducatum Brabantiae: Cum Pertinentiis et adiacentibus Regionibus . Augsburg, 1761 ( digitized edition )
  • Princip. Vratislaviensis cum pertinent. Mappa Geographica . Augsburg, 1740 ( digitized edition )

literature

  • Art, trade and handicraft history of the imperial city of Augsburg Volume 1 (1779). P. 55 ( digitized version ).
  • Lothar Zögner: Tobias Conrad Lotter 1717–1777, card maker in Augsburg. in: Kartographische Nachrichten 51, 1977, pp. 172-175.
  • Michael Ritter: The world from Augsburg. Maps by Tobias Conrad Lotter (1717–1777) and his successors . Augsburg u. a. 2014. ISBN 978-3-422-07265-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME Lotter, Tobias Conrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German map engraver
DATE OF BIRTH 1717
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1777