1563-1610.
Van Linschoten, born in Haarlem, is heard of in the service of the Portuguese Archbishop of Goa where he spent five years between 1583 and 1588. On his return to Holland he produced a History of his travels, important for the inclusion of maps from Portuguese sources, at that time rarely available to Dutch - or any other - cartographers. The maps (including a world map by Petrus Plancius) engraved by van Langren, are highly decorative with large cartouches, the arms of Portugal, compass roses, rhumb lines and sea monsters. Some are illustrated with views of prominent places or islands.
Bland arbeten.
Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines.
Född 1707 19/12 i Bettna sn (Söd.), död 1747 12/1 i Stockholm (Jakob).
Brukspredikant och komminister. Kopparstickare. Son av kyrkoherden Anders G. Och Catharina Bergander. Elev av Johan van den Aveelen o. 1724. Student vid Uppsala universitet 1725, brukspredikant vid Vällinge i Salems sn (Sthlm) 1737, komminister i Jakobs och Johannes församlingar i Stockholm 1740. Kusinen C. E. Bergquist har graverat ett porträtt av sin lärare Geringius med följande omskrift:
»Den oss i koppar har så mänga bilder visat
Blir här i koppar sjelf af eftervärlden prisat
Som prest och konstnär har han tjent sitt fosterland
Var nitisk i sitt kall och konstrik i sin hand.»
Bland arbeten.
O. CELSIUS d. ä., De insula Melita, diss., resp. A. Geringius, Uppsala 1725: karta över Malta.
Antependium i Riddarholmskyrkan, 1726, kpst., avsett för J. Possieths tillämnade beskrivning över Riddarholmskyrkan.
P. TILLAEUS, Karta över Stockholm, efter P. Wallrave, 1733, utförd i samarbete med C. E. Bergquist, jämte porträtt av Fredrik I, efter M. Mijtens, kpst.
Karta över Mälaren, 1739.
Karta över Södermanland, 1743.
M. A. SAHLSTEDT, Stora Tuna i Dahlom och Bergom minnesdöme, Sthlm 1743: karta över Stora Tuna.
Hultmark, 1944.
Karta öfver Stockholm. - 1904.
'Stockholms skärgård. Dalarö - Landsort'. - Stockholm 1933.
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.)
