Matthäus Stang

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Matthäus Stang (* 1581/2 in Burglengenfeld , † after 1625) was a draftsman and cartographer .

Life

Matthäus Stang came from Burglengenfeld and was '' as government chancellor and painter of Neuburg '' in the service of the Principality of Palatinate-Neuburg . Together with Christoph Vogel , he created a set of maps of all 26 offices in the principality between 1597 and 1605, succeeding Friedrich Seefried . This land survey is one of the most important cartographic achievements in the decades around 1600.

literature

  • Heribert Batzl: Christophorus Vogel (1554–1608). From the life and work of an Upper Palatinate cartographer. In: Heimaterzähler, local supplement for the “Schwandorfer Tagblatt” and the “Burglengenfelder Zeitung”. No. 8, May 1957.
  • Gerhard Leidel: From the painted landscape to the measured land. General Directorate of the Bavarian State Archives, Munich 2006, pp. 129–146.
  • August Scherl : The Palatinate New Burgess land survey under Philipp Ludwig. In: Archival Journal . Vol. 56 (1960), pp. 84-105, DOI: 10.7788 / az-1960-jg04 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ignaz Ströller: Genealogical-Biographical Dictionary, handwriting beg. 19th century, edited by Roland Thiele, Neuburg ad D. 2010, III. 439.01
  2. ↑ Hans Wolff (Ed.): Bavaria in the picture of the map. Cartographia Bavariae. 2nd Edition. Konrad, Weißenhorn 1991, p. 63.
personal data
SURNAME Stang, Matthew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman and cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1550
PLACE OF BIRTH Burglengenfeld
DATE OF DEATH after 1616