1630-1702. Född i Västerås, död i Uppsala.
Svensk naturforskare. 1648-54 studerade han medicin i Uppsala och vid holländska universitet, 1655 blev han adjunkt vid universitetet i Uppsala, 1658 professor i teoretisk medicin (med fysik, botanik, anatomi och kemi). Han var en betydande botaniker och medicinsk forskare. Hans mest berömda verk är 'Atlantica sive Manheim' i tre band (1677-98). Där försökte han med stor lärdom bevisa att Sverige var identiskt med Platons Atlantis.
Bland arbeten.
Atlantica sive Manheim.
Sv. män och kv.
Svensk-finländsk ätt, stammande från kyrkoherden i Grangärde (Västerås stift) Johannes Matthiae (d. 1622), dennes sonson upptog efter hemsocknen Skultuna namnet Schultenius, och den sistnämndes sonson (se nedan Nathanael Gerhard) adlades 1809 Schultén enligt RF §37. Sonson till denne var kirurgen prof. vid Helsingfors universitet Maximus Widekund S. (1847-1899). Ätten fortlever endast i Finland, där medl. inneha finsk friherrlig värdighet.
Svensk Uppslb. bd. 25 s. 559. 2:a uppl. 1953.
ca 1646-1708.
About 1675, shortly before the van Keulen publishing business was set up in Amsterdam, Robijn practised there as a map 'illuminator' and chart seller. After a short association with Johannes van Keulen he acquired publishing rights covering the Zee-Spiegel and Zee Atlas from the widow of Pieter Goos and used the plates to produce his own pilot book and sea atlas. Apart from a small number of plates prepared to his own order, most of Robijn's work cannot be said to be original: he issued Goos's charts and those of Roggeveen with a variety of texts by J. and C. Jacobsz (Lootsman), Arent Roggeveen and even John Seller with the result that analysis of the various issues cannot easily be simplified. Robijn's stock was eventually taken over by Johannes Loots. The brief details given below should be read in conjunction with our notes on Pieter Goos and Arent Roggeveen.
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Hoogheymraadschap van Rhynland. (Leiden?, 1685-1688).
This large –scale map, compiled by Janz Douw and Steven van Brouchhuysen and engraved by Cornelis Danckerts, originally issued in 1647, was intended to be assembled into a wall-map in four series of three leaves. Between 1685 and 1688 the plates were brought up to date and the cartouche re-embellished by Romeyn de Hooghe and the map re-issued.
Sotheby's
Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.
Eskilstuna - Thorshälla. 1868.
GERRITSZ [GERARD, GERARDUS, GHERRITSZOON van ASSUM].
Biografiska uppgifter:Hessel 1581-1632.
Gerritsz was apprenticed to W. J. Blaeu as an engraver before starting in business on his own account. He worked closely with Petrus Plancius and his merit may be judged by the fact that he was appointed Cartographer to the Dutch East India Company in preference to Blaeu and subsequently held the same position in a newly formed West India Company. With the new company he came into touch with Johannes de
Laet for whom he prepared a number of new maps of America in the latter's Nieuwe Wereldt published in 1625. His most important early work was a chart showing Henry Hudson's discoveries in his voyage of 1610-11: it is the first to give an outline of Hudson's Bay and indicates Hudson's belief that he had found a way to the North West Passage.
Engraver, cartographer, publisher and bookseller, b. Assum, apprenticed as engraver to Blaeu, Cartographer to Dutch E. India Co. 1617, fl. 1607; from 1612 using sign 'in de Paskaert' or 'sub signo Tabulae Nauticae'. Addresses: (1) opt Water bij die oude Brug [1609], (2) by die Lienbaens Brugh [1616], (3) Nieuwe Zijds Voorburgwal [1624], (4) Doelestraat [1627-32].
Engraved 17 Netherlands (1608?, lost)
Gulick Cleve 1610,
Spain 1612-(15),
Besch. van de Samoyeden Landt 1612,
Besch. van de Zeecusten van Ierlandt 1612,
engd. Blaeu's Lithuania 1613,
Russia 1613,
Italy 1617,
MS charts E. Indies, Pacific & c. 1617-22,
maps in Laet's Novus Orbis 1625,
Eendrachts' Land (W. Australia) 1627,
Rotario W. Indies & S. America 1628-32 MSS.
(Tooley.)
