Jodocus Hondius

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Jodocus Hondius on an engraving from 1619

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 .

Cover picture of the second London edition of the Mercator Atlas of 1637 with the additions by Jodocus Hondius
From Hondius's writing master book 1594: Theatrum artis Scribendi. P. 7
West Indies , here as a print from 1625

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

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

Commons : Jodocus Hondius  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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