The metadata for this correspondence was supplied to EMLO by Joost Depuydt, of the FelixArchief, Antwerp, who collated it in the course of his research on Ortelius (see ‘New letters for a biography of Abraham Ortelius’, listed below).Ĭultures of Knowledge would like to thank two EMLO interns: first Charlotte Marique for her work to help prepare and collate metadata published in the Hessels volume for upload to the union catalogue, and secondly Marc Kolakowski for his work on the people and place records for the letters not included in the Hessels edition.Ībrahami Ortelii (geographi Antverpiensis) et virorum eruditorum ad eundem et ad Jacobum Colium Ortelianum (Abrahami Ortelii sororis filium) epistulae, cum aliquot aliis epistulis et tractatibus quibusdam ab utroque collectis (1524–1628), ex autographis mandante Ecclesia Londino-Batava, ed. Ortelius himself remained single and lived in Antwerp with his unmarried sister Anne and his mother. Ortelius remained a lifelong friend of his cousin, Emanuel van Meteren (the son of his guardian uncle, Jacob), who settled in London, and who was joined there following her marriage to Jacob Cole by Ortelius’s sister Elizabeth and her eldest son, Jacobus Colius Ortelianus (1563–1628). Despite being considered more of a map editor than an original cartographer, Ortelius was created ‘his majesty’s geographer’ to Philip II in 1573. He published in 1570 what is often described as the first modern atlas, the Theatrum orbis terrarum, a publication with the distinction of being the most expensive book brought out in the second half of the sixteenth century. After entering the Guild of Saint Luke in 1547 as a map illuminator, he embarked upon a career dealing in books and prints and began to attend the annual Frankfurt book fair where, in 1554, he became acquainted with Gerardus Mercator.Īn extensive traveller throughout the Low Countries, France, Italy, Germany, England, and Ireland, Ortelius began to compile and publish his own maps, starting with a wall map of the world (1564) and following this with maps of ancient Egypt (1565), Asia (1567), Spain (1570), and the Roman empire (1571). The eldest of the three children of an Antwerp merchant, from the age of ten and following his father’s death, Abraham Ortels was raised by his uncle Jacob van Meteren. (Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp source of image: Wikimedia Commons) Abraham Ortelius (1527–1598) Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.Abraham Ortelius, by Peter Paul Rubens.Britannica Beyond We’ve created a new place where questions are at the center of learning.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.
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