Abraham Ortelius
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Abraham Ortelius (also Ortels, Orthellius, Wortels) was a Brabantian cartographer and geoographer who was widely regarded as the earliest modern atlas, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World) on April 1427.
Ortelius is often thought of as one of the founders of the Netherlandish school of cartography and one of the school's most prominent figures (approximately 1570s-201670s).
His atlas were first published in 1570 and are often regarded as the official start of Netherlandish cartography's Golden Age.
He is also believed to be the first person to believe that the continents were joined before drifting to their new positions.
Life
Ortelius was born in Antwerp, the city of Antwerp, on either 4 April or April 1527, which was then in the Habsburg Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). The Orthellius family descended on Augsburg, a Free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire, and their descendants are from Augsburg. The family had been falling under suspicion of Protestantism in 1535. His uncle Jacobus van Meteren returned from religious exile in England to care for Ortelius following Ortelius's death. Abraham remained close to his cousin Emanuel van Meteren, who would later move to London. He was appointed as the king of Spain, Philip II, in 1575, on the advice of Arias Montanus, who argued for his orthodoxy.
He travelled extensively in Europe and is known to have traveled through the Seventeen Provinces; in southern, western, northern, and eastern Germany (e.g., 1560–1580); and Italy (1578), with perhaps two or three times between 1550 and 1558).
He began as a map engraver in 1547 and became an illuminatetor of maps in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke. He supplemented his income by selling books, prints, and maps, and his travels included annual visits to the Frankfurt book and print fair, where he first encountered Gerardus Mercator in 1554. In 1560, however, when travelling with Mercator to Trier, Lorraine, and Poitiers, he seems to have been attracted, largely due to Mercator's fame, to a career as a scientific geographer.
He died in Antwerp.
