Matthias Quad
{{Short description|Engraver and cartographer (1557–1613)}}
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Matthias Quad (1557–1613) was an engraver and cartographer from Cologne. He was the first European mapmaker to use dotted lines to indicate international borders.Helmut Walser Smith, The Continuities of German History (Cambridge University Press, 2008), p. 44.
Life
Matthias Quad was born and learnt engraving in the Netherlands. An engraver in wood and stone, Quad collaborated with the Cologne publisher Johann Bussemacher to publish a quarto atlas of Europe in 1592.{{cite book|author=Rodney W. Shirley|title=Courtiers and cannibals, angels and amazons: the art of the decorative cartographic titlepage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MGknAQAAIAAJ|access-date=14 January 2013|year=2009|publisher=Hes & De Graaf|isbn=978-90-6194-060-9|page=82}} This was expanded into a Geographisches Handtbuch (1599), with more text than maps, and then into a proper atlas, Fasciculus Geographicus (1608).{{cite book|author1=Leo Bagrow|author2=R a Skelton|title=History of Cartography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OBeB4tDmJv8C&pg=PA266|access-date=14 January 2013|edition=enlarged 2nd|year=2009|publisher=Transaction Publishers|isbn=978-1-4128-1154-5|page=266}}
Works
- Europea totius orbis terrarum praestantissimae..., 1592 ([https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_2Xzye06H6IoC 1596 edition on Internet Archive])
- Globi terrestris compendium, 1598 ([https://books.google.com/books?id=i3MxHbkaEc0C On Google Books])
- Enchiridion Cosmographicum, 1599 ([https://books.google.com/books?id=T21OAAAAcAAJ On Google Books])
- Geographisches Handtbuch, 1599/1600 ([https://books.google.com/books?id=YHZXAAAAcAAJ On Google Books])
- Deliciae Germaniae sive totius Germaniae itinerarium, 1600 ([https://books.google.com/books?id=WBM8AAAAcAAJ On Google Books])
- Itinerarium Universae Germaniae, 1602 ([https://books.google.com/books?id=2bZXAAAAcAAJ On Google Books])
- Deliciae Hispaniae et index viatorius indicans itinera, 1604 ([https://books.google.com/books?id=YB5YAAAAcAAJ On Google Books])
- Fasciculus Geographicus, 1608 ([https://books.google.com/books?id=NFFeAAAAcAAJ On Google Books])
References
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Category:16th-century German engravers
Category:17th-century German engravers
Category:Businesspeople from Cologne
Category:Emigrants from the Dutch Republic
Category:Immigrants to the Holy Roman Empire
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