Jodocus Hondius
Jodocus Hondius (actually Josse de Hondt ; born October 14, 1563 in Wakken , Flanders , † February 12, 1612 in Amsterdam ) was a Flemish cartographer and publisher of atlases and maps.
Life
Hondius was born as the son of Olivier de Hondt and Petronella d'Havertuyn in Wakken, Flanders. In his earliest youth, the family moved to Ghent , where Jodocus began an apprenticeship as a copperplate engraver at the age of eight . In 1584 Jodocus fled to London to escape the religious turmoil in Flanders in the wake of the Netherlands' struggle for freedom .
In London he studied with Richard Hakluyt and Edward Wright before moving to Amsterdam in 1593 , where he specialized in the production of maps and globes . Jan Vermeer immortalized two of his globes in his paintings The Astronomer and The Geographer .
In 1600 he made a celestial globe showing twelve new constellations of the southern sky that had been discovered by the Dutch navigator Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser .
In 1604, Hondius purchased the plates from Mercator's world atlas, which at that time in popularity over the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum of Abraham Ortelius had fallen. Hondius added about forty maps of his own and published this expanded edition from 1606 under the name of Mercators and his own as a publisher. This atlas, which appeared in several editions, is now known as the Mercator-Hondius Atlas .
Since 2013, the Hondius Inlet has been named after him in his honor, a bay in Graham Land in Antarctica.
family
Shortly before Hondius' death, his daughter Elisabeth married the Dutch publisher Jan Jansson . Hondius' publishing house was continued after 1612 by his widow and sons Jodocus II and Henricus . From 1633 Jan Jansson was involved in the further publication of the atlas as a business partner and co-publisher.
A relationship to the family of Hendrik Hondius d. Ä. and his son Willem Hondius is not certain.
Works
- Abissinorum Imperium . Jodocus Hondius, Amstelodami 1618 ( digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf )
- P. Bertii Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri septem. 1618 ( digitized version )
- numerous other maps can also be viewed there
- Writer's book from 1594: Theatrum artis scribendi (Facsimile of 2007 http://www.jpad.biz/pdfs/tas.pdf ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) ; PDF; 4.6 MB).
Facsimile editions
- The world map of 1669 by Jodocus Hondius the elder & Nicolaas Visscher , explanatory text by Günter Schilder, Amsterdam 1978, ISBN 90-6072-119-5
- Nova totius Europae descriptio / Jodocus Hondius & Petrus Kaerius , introduction by Cornelis Koeman, reprint of the Amsterdam 1595 edition, Amsterdam 1967
literature
- Ton Croiset van Uchelen: Jodocus Hondius's Theatrum artis scribendi examined anew. In: Quaerendo. Volume 34, 2004, pp. 53-86, ISSN 0014-9527
- Peter van der Krogt (Ed.): Koeman's atlantes Neerlandici. Volume 1: The folio atlases published by Gerard Mercator, Jodocus Hondius, Henricus Hondius, Johannes Janssonius and their successors. 't Goy-Houten 1997, ISBN 90-6194-268-3
- Brian Hooker: New light on Jodocus Hondius' great world Mercator map of 1598. In: The geographical journal. Volume 159, 1993, pp. 45-50, ISSN 0016-7398
- Antoine de Smet: Jodocus Hondius, continuateur de Mercator. Bruxelles 1963
- Joseph Eduard Wessely : Hondius . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 69 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Jodocus Hondius in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Jodocus Hondius in the German Digital Library
- Publications by and about Jodocus Hondius in VD 17 .
- Atlas Minor Gerardi Mercatoris a I. Hondio plurimis aeneis tabulis auctus atque ilustratus , digital copy of the 1610 edition
- Library of Congress Vera Totius Expeditionis Nauticae 1595
- Universiteitsbibliotheek Amsterdam 25 cards van Hondius
- Biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid Atlas sive Cosmographicae 1623
- Biblioteca Nacional de España L'Atlas, # 1 met oa Duitsland en de Nederlanden 1633
- Biblioteca Nacional de España² L'Atlas, # 2 met oa Italie, Afrika, Azie en Amerika 1633
Individual evidence
- ^ Venezuela with the Southern Part of New Andalusia . 1612-1699. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
personal data | |
---|---|
SURNAME | Hondius, Jodocus |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hondt, Josse de |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Flemish cartographer and publisher |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1563 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wakken |
DATE OF DEATH | February 12, 1612 |
Place of death | Amsterdam |