Jean Fayen

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The 1594 map of the Limousin from the atlas Le Theater Francoys

Jean Fayen , including Jean Du Fayen , Jean DuFayen , Jean Faiano , John Faianus , Antoine Jean du Fayen or Jean du Fayen , (* around 1530, † 1616 ) was a French physician, poet and cartographer in Limoges worked .

He was the creator of the first map of the Limousin , titled Totius Lemovici et confinium provinciarum quantum ad dioecesin lemovicensen spectant in the Atlas Le Theater Francoys by Maurice Bouguereau and published in Tours in 1594 . Further revisions and publications of the map in the works of other cartographers and geographers followed. For example in the Atlas Le Théâtre géographique du Royaume de France (Paris 1620) by Jean Le Clerc and in the Atlas Atlas or A Geographicke Description of the World (Amsterdam 1636) by Gerhard Mercator , Jodocus Hondius , Johannes Janssonius .

reception

A detail from the map of Limoges drawn on the map

The poet Jean Fayen and his approach to work becomes clear in a letter from him to the Duc de Ventadour, which the American Romanist Louisa Mackenzie (* 1970) mentions in her book The Poetry of Place: Lyric, Landscape, and Ideology in Renaissance France . There Fayen roughly says that he wants to bring out the laughing face of the Limousin (in Greek character), which has previously been hidden under a veil: that he aims toreveal the laughin face of Limousin (in Greek character), which has previously been hidden under a veil .

In a small poem by the French poet Joachim Blanchon (around 1540–1597) Jean Fayen is compared with Archimedes . The poem can be found in a corner box at the bottom left of the Limousin map.

literature

  • Louisa Mackenzie: The Poetry of Place: Lyric, Landscape, and Ideology in Renaissance France , University of Toronto Press, Toronto / Buffalo / London 2011, pp. 37, 43, 44, 47, ISBN 978-1-4426-4239-3
  • Leo Bagrow : History of Cartography, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick (USA) and London (UK) 2010, pp. 160, 242, ISBN 978-1-4128-1154-5
  • Monique Pelletier: Cartographie de la France et du monde de la Renaissance au Siècle des lumières , Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris 2001, p. 23, ISBN 2-7177-2176-2

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Louisa Mackenzie: The Poetry of Place: Lyric, Landscape, and Ideology in Renaissance France (2011), p. 43
  2. ^ Louisa Mackenzie: The Poetry of Place: Lyric, Landscape, and Ideology in Renaissance France (2011), p. 47
personal data
SURNAME Fayen, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES You Fayen, Jean; DuFayen, Jean; Faiano, Jean; Faianus, Johannes; Fayano, Jean; Fayano, Jo .; Fayanus, J .; Fayanus, Johannes; Fayen, Antoine Jean you; Fayen, you Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French doctor, poet and cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1530
DATE OF DEATH 1616