Matthäus Seutter

Matthäus Seutter

The High Princely Residency Peace and Main City of Gotha. HA king delineavit. Augsburg: Seutter o. J. (colored copper engraving)

Delineatio pagi Tigurini
Map of the Canton of Zurich , around 1750

Matthäus Seutter (born September 20, 1678 in Augsburg ; † March 1757 ibid) was a German cartographer and engraver and founder of the printing company and the Seutter publishing house.

Life

Born the son of a goldsmith, Seutter began an apprenticeship with Johann Baptist Homann in Nuremberg after 1697 . When he returned to his hometown Augsburg, he first worked for Jeremias Wolff (1663–1724).

Around 1707 he founded his own company with a printing and publishing house. There he produced large numbers of maps, city plans, genealogical charts and other motifs. He also brought out a globe pair (terrestrial and celestial globe). By copying the successful concept of his teacher Homann, he soon rose to become his greatest competitor. However, only a few original maps were published by Seutter, which was certainly also due to the fact that Augsburg had neither a university nor a mathematical and scientific environment at the time. Rather, many of his maps are literally “copied” from the originals of other cartographers, ie copies. At most they deviated from the original in the artistic design with lush baroque cartouches and allegorical scenes. Seutter initially stabbed his cards himself, in later years he was a. a. supported by his sons Georg Matthäus and Albrecht Carl and Tobias Conrad Lotter ; Augsburg artists such as Martin Gottfried Crophius (1717–1765), Melchior Rhein or Gottfried Rogg (1669–1742) were used for the decorative elements . Around 400 large-format and more than 60 small-format copperplate engravings were made in Seutter's workshop.

From 1720, Seutter summarized his maps in atlases with different titles, which grew from initially 20 maps (Atlas Compendiosus) to over 300 maps (Atlas Novus, Great Atlas). His small-format maps could be purchased individually in cardboard cases or as a collective edition (Atlas Minor, from around 1745).

Like Homann before him, Seutter also received from Emperor Charles VI in 1731/32 . the beautiful but meaningless title Sacrae Caesareae Maiestatis Geographus , which means imperial geographer (abbreviated on the maps as SCMaj. Geogr or SCMG ). In addition, he was granted an imperial printing privilege in 1741, which, however, only applied to the Swabian and Upper Rhine districts and to the area under Franconian law.

After Seutter's death in 1757, his son Albrecht Carl (1722–1762) continued the company alone. But he only survived his father by 5 years. His widow then sold about half of the publishing house to Matthäus Seutter's son-in-law Tobias Conrad Lotter and the also closely related art publisher Johann Michael Probst (1727–1776). They replaced Seutter's name with their own on most of the map inventory acquired in 1762.

Works

• Nova et accuratißima Ducatus Wurtenbergici cum Territoriis conterminis Designatio: Cum Gratia et Privil. SRI Vicariat. in partib. Rheni, Sveviae, et Iuris Franconici / cura et sumtibus Matthaei Seutteri. - Augsburg: Matthaeus Seutter, between 1740 a. 1756. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
• Alsatia Landgraviatus: cum utroque Marchionatu Badensi, Sundgovia, Brisgovia, magno tractu Herciniae Silvae et ditione IV. Urbium Silvestrium; Cu. Grat. Et Pr.SRI Vicariatus, in partibus Rheni, Sveviae, et Iuris Franconici / Cura et Sumtibus Matth. Seutteri. - Digitized edition
• Ducatus Mutinensis, Regiensis Et Carpiensis cum magna Provinciarum conterminarum parte: Cum Priv. S. Vic. in part. Rheni, Suev. et Franc. Iuris / Singulari studio aeri incidit et excudit Matthaeus Seutter. Albrecht Carl Seutter del. Et sculps- digitized edition
• Delineatio pagi Tigurini ex observationibus recentissimis et accuratissimis accedit seorsim in tabella Dominium Saxet Forsteck / sculpsit et excudit Matth. Seutter
• Germania Augustiniana: Exhibens Provincias Ord. Fr. Fr. Eremit S. Augustini una cum Monasteriis et Residentiis ad Aßistentiam Generalem utriusque Germaniae, Bohemiae, Moraviae, Poloniae Hungariae, et Hyberniae pertinentibus… Digitized edition
• Germaniae Inferioris sive Belgii Pars Meridionalis: exhibens X. Provincias Catholic. ; C. Privil. SRI Vicariat / recentissime et curatissime in lucem edita Per M. Seutter Digitized edition
• Circulus Franconicus: in quo continentur Episcopat. Würtzburgens. Bambergensis et Aichstadiensis, Status Equitum Teutonicorum… Baronatus Sinsheim. Territory. Noribergensis . Augsburg, 1750. Digitized edition
• Circulus Westphalicus in suas provincias et ditiones accurate distinctus et recentissime delineat [us] . Augsburg, 1730. Digitized edition
• Historia Imperii Romano-Germanici: Cum Gratia et Privil. SRI Vicariatus, in part. Rheni, Sueviae, et Iuris Franconici / nec non finitimarum Regionum in Mappa exhibita, ac aeri incisa â Matthaeo Seutter Digitized edition
• Novissima et accuratissima Delineatio Status Ecclesiae et Magni Ducatus Hetruriae: Cum Gratia et Privil. SRI Vicariatus, in partib. Rheni, Sveviae, et Iuris Franconici / publici iuris facta per Matth. Seutter digitized edition
• Les Routes Exactes Des Postes Du Royaume De France: Cum Gratia et Privilegio Sac. Caes. May / Matt. Seutter, excud - digitized edition
• Saxoniae Inferioris Circulus: iuxta Principatus et Status suos accurate delineatus; Cum Gratia et Privil. SRI Vicariatus, in partibus Rheni, Sveviae et Iuris Franconici - Digitized edition
• Imperium Romano-Germanicum in suos Circulos Electoratus Et Status Summâ curâ et Studio divisum. - Augustae Vindel: Seutter, 1725. Digitized edition
• Gallia: Concinnata ad magnum numerum mapparum particularium manu scriptarum vel impreßarum iuxta genuinum situm locorum et collatarum cum Itinerariis veteribus et recentioribus. - between 1730 a. 1760. Digitized edition
• Europe: Religionis Christianae Morum Et Pacis Ac Belli Artium Cultu Omnium Terrarum Orbis Partium Praestantiss. - Augustae Vindelicorum, approx. 1730. Digitized edition
• Ulma: memorabilis ac permunita libera Imperii Civitas ad Danubiem, ubi Ilera et Blauus ei miscentur. - Augustae Vindel, Augsburg [between 1730 a. 1760]. Digitized edition
• Map of the Schoenburg dominions : Dynastiae Comitat Schoenburgici Penig, Remissa, Rochsburg, Wechselburg In clientela Elect. Saxon. Glaucha, Hartenstein, Lichtenst. Stein, Waldenburg ... , approx. 1750. Digitized edition

literature

• Christian Sandler :  Seutter, Matthäus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, pp. 70-72.
• Christian Sandler : Matthäus Seutter and his maps, in: Mitteilungen des Verein für Gekunde zu Leipzig, 1894, No. 1, pp. 1–38. ( Digitized version )
• Peter H. Meurer : The printing privilege for Matthäus Seutter. In: Cartographica Helvetica Heft 8 (1993) pp. 32–36 full text
• Michael Ritter: The Augsburg map publishers Seutter, Lotter and Probst. In: Cartographica Helvetica Heft 25 (2002) pp. 2–10 full text
• Michael Ritter:  Seutter, Matthäus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 285 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Michael Ritter: Aids for dating cards from the Augsburg publishers Seutter, Lotter and Probst. In: Kurt Brunner and Thomas Horst (eds.): 15th Kartographiehistorisches Colloquium, Munich September 2-4, 2010. Lectures - reports - poster contributions. Bonn 2012, pp. 247-254.

Web links

Commons : Matthäus Seutter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Matthäus Seutter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Matthäus Seutter  in the German Digital Library
• DNB information about Matthäus Seutter
• Gotha / Friedenstein townscape
• approx. 20 maps by Seutter