Jean Jolivet

The France map in the Atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius

Jean Jolivet , including Ioanne Ioliveto , Ioannes Iolivetus or Joannes Jolivetus , (* 1st half of the 16th century, probably in Bellac ; † 1569 ) was a French cartographer and geographer who was in the service of Francis I (1494-1547) and Heinrich II. (1519–1559).

Nothing is known of his immediate living conditions.

His cartographic work includes a map of Normandy (on parchment, 1545), a large six-sheet map of Berry (on copper, 1545), a map of Picardy (on wood, 1559/66) and a four-sheet map of France (on wood, 1560).

The map of France and the map of Picardy were first published in Paris by the French wood engraver and map publisher Olivier Truchet (15th - 15th). There are also other versions of the map of France by other cartographers and publishers. The Flemish cartographer and geographer Abraham Ortelius (1527–1598) included them in a revised form in the first edition of his atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum in 1570, and the French cartographer and publisher Maurice Bouguereau († 1596) used them in his atlas Le Theater Francoys which appeared in 1594 and was the first ever atlas of France. Also worth mentioning is a version that was published in Paris in 1570 by a certain Marc du Chesne.

literature

• Monique Pelletier: Cartographie de la France et du monde de la Renaissance au Siècle des lumières , Éditions de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris 2014, pp. 6, 17, 18, 19, ISBN 978-2-7177-2628-2
• Leo Bagrow : The history of cartography: With 228 reproductions of maps on 8 color plates, 112 art print plates and in the text 1435 names and dates of cartographers , Safari Verlag, Berlin 1951, pp. 133, 134, 135, 350

Web links

• Literature by and about Jean Jolivet in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Remarks

1. ↑ 1553 is also often given as the year of his death, but this is not very likely since two of his maps are dated years later.