Georg Philipp Finckh

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Georg Philipp Finckh (* around 1608; † January 15, 1679 , buried in Freising ) was a German cartographer .

life and work

Georg Philipp Finckh came from Dachau and was a son of the carpenter Leonhard Finckh. At the age of 18, he graduated from the Jesuit high school in Munich (today Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich ) in 1624 . He was a "licentiate in both rights", that is, he had studied and thereby graduated in canon law and secular law. He became "Episcopal Freysing and Regensburg Council, court secretary, caretaker on the Ottenburg " and cartographer. The material he collected for updating the Bavarian land tables by Philipp Apian was used to create his own map of Old Bavaria on a scale of around 1: 270,000. This work is called Sacri Romani Imperii Circuli Et Electoratus Bavariae Tabula Chorographica (“Overview map of the district and Electorate of Bavaria des Heiligen Roman Empire ”) was engraved on 28 plates in Augsburg by Johann Stridbeck the Younger and only published in 1684, five years after Finckh's death, with a dedication to the Bavarian Elector, by Finckh's son Georg Philipp of the same name. Apparently only a few copies were printed during Finckh's lifetime.

Compared to Philipp Apian's map series, some names have changed, some places have been added and many have been left out. In comparison to Apian's country tables, the lack of place names suggests that some places have been lost (" desert areas ").

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vol., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 1, p. 44
personal data
SURNAME Finckh, Georg Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1608
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1679