1648-1709?.
Holländsk kartförläggare. Född och död i Amsterdam där han drev en omfattande konst- och kartaffär. 1699 sökte han privilegium för utgivningen av en ny 'Atlas Minor' och 1706 gav han samtidigt ut både en 'Atlas Minor' som innehöll 521 av den tidens bästa landskartor, och två mindre atlaser med uppskattningsvis 25 kartor. Från 1708 finns bevarat en förteckning över hans samling av kopparstick, som ger ett bra bild av hans verksamhet. Förutom kartorna finner vi här en rad med prospekt och skeppskonstruktioner, porträtt och bilder med historiska och bibliska motiv. Flera av tidens främsta konstnärer finns representerade, däribland Rembrandt med 6 målningar.
Bland arbeten.
Atlas Minor.
Kleerkooper.
Född på Sveaborg 14 december 1783, död 12 november 1874 på Nynäs.
Bror till Mikael Gustaf Anckarswärd.
Grefve, militär, riksdagsman, föddes på Sveaborg 14 dec. 1783. Som spädt barn inskrefs han i krigstjänst och blef officer vid sju års ålder. 1802 utnämndes han till löjtnant vid Göta garde och gjorde, liksom äldre brodern, pommerska fälttåget mot Napoleon 1805–06. Anställd som kapten vid Västmanlands regemente och adjutant hos dåv. öfverstelöjtnanten Georg Adlersparre 1808, deltog han som en bland hufvudmännen i värmländska fördelningens revolutionära rörelser i mars 1809 och, efter den därigenom föranledda regeringsförändringen, som amiral Pukes stabschef i den misslyckade expeditionen åt Norrbotten. Han blef öfverstelöjtnant i armén 1810 och följande året bataljonschef vid det då nyuppsatta indelta Södra skånska infanteriregementet, med hvilket han deltog i 1813–14 års fälttåg. Som öfverste och general-adjutant lämnade han krigstjänsten 1819. – Vid riksdagen 1823 understödde han troget sin äldre broder och deltog jämte honom i följande riksdagar. Ehuru han alldeles ic...
Bland arbeten.
Fordna och närvarande Sverige
Nordisk Familjebok, Uggleupplagan
SURHON[IUS] [SURHONIO, SURCHON-], JEAN and JACQUES.
Cartographers, goldsmiths and engravers, b. Mons.
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Hainault 1548 (used by Ortelius 1579.
Hondius 1633).
Luxembourg 1551.
Namur 1553.
Artois 1554.
Picardy 1557 (used by Ortelius 1559).
Vermandois 1577 (used by Blaeu 1631).
Tooley.
Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734
Frankfurt. - Blaeu 1643/44.
Biografiska uppgifter:Kâtip Çelebi, Mustafa bin Abdullah, Haji Khalifa or Kalfa, (1609, Istanbul – 1657 Istanbul)
Kâtip Celebi was an Ottoman scholar. A historian and geographer, he is regarded as one of the most productive authors of non-religious scientific literature in the 17th century Ottoman Empire. Among his best-known works is the Kashf al-?un?n ‘an as?m? al-kutub wa-al-fun?n, ('The Removal of Doubt from the Names of Books and the Arts'), a bibliographic encyclopaedia, written in Arabic, which lists more than 14,500 books in alphabetic order.
Life and works
The son of a soldier, he himself was a soldier for ten years until a heritage made him turn to a more contemplative life. As the accountant of the commissariat department of the Ottoman Army in Anatolia, he accompanied the Ottoman army in the campaign against Baghdad in 1625, was present at the siege of Erzurum, and returned to Istanbul in 1628. In the following year he was again in Baghdad and Hamadan, and in 1633-34 at Aleppo, whence he made the pilgrimage to Mecca (hence his title Hajji). The following year he was in Erivan and then returned to Constantinople. Here he obtained a post in the head office of the commissariat department, which afforded him time for study. He seems to have attended the lectures of great teachers up to the time of his death, and made a practice of visiting bookshops and noting the titles and contents of all books he found there.
One of his shorter and more accessible works is M?z?n al-?aqq f? ikhtiy?r al-a?aqq ('The balance of truth in the choice of the truest'), a collection of short essays on topics in Islamic law, ethics, and theology, in which he takes a relatively liberal and tolerant view—often critical of narrow-minded Islamic religious authorities. This book serves as a source on Ottoman social developments in the 16th and 17th centuries, such as the introduction of coffee and tobacco. While he did not concur with the outlawing of coffee and tobacco, he found tobacco smoke personally distasteful, writing of the 'noxious effects of the corruption of the aerial essence.' An English translation by G. L. Lewis of the M?z?n al-?aqq has been published with annotations under the title The Balance of Truth.
Katip Çelebi died suddenly and peacefully in October 1657, while drinking a cup of coffee.
Bland arbeten:
Cihannüma (The mirror of the world) Constantinople, Ibrahim Müteferrika, 1732. First edition.
This is the second work by Kâtip Celebi published in 1729. The author was a well known writer on history and geography and a bibliophile and in this work intended to publish a universal system of geography. In fact only part of the work (including the description of Asia Minor) was completed by Kâtip who used European and Arabic and Persian sources, and the whole was supplemented and edited by Ibrahim, who dedicated it to the grand vizir of Sultan Mahmud II, Ali Pasha.
The picture is showing the map of the Indian Ocean and the China Sea that was engraved in 1728 by the Hungarian-born Ottoman cartographer and publisher Ibrahim Müteferrika; it is one of a series that illustrated Katip Çelebi’s Cihannuma (Universal Geography), the first printed book of maps and drawings to appear in the Islamic world.
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