He also had a keen interest and formed a fine collection of coins, medals and antiques, and this resulted in the book (also in 1573, published by Philippe Galle of Antwerp) Deorum dearumque capita. Four more Additamenta were to follow, the last one appearing in 1597. In 1573 Ortelius published seventeen supplementary maps under the title Additamentum Theatri Orbis Terrarum. Its immediate precursor and prototype was a collection of thirty-eight maps of European lands, and of Asia, Africa, Tartary and Egypt, gathered together by the wealth and enterprise, and through the agents, of Ortelius’ friend and patron, Gillis Hooftman (1521–1581), lord of Cleydael and Aertselaer: most of these were printed in Rome, eight or nine only in the Southern Netherlands. Errors, of course, abound, both in general conceptions and in detail thus South America is initially very faulty in outline, but corrected in the 1587 French edition, and in Scotland the Grampians lie between the Forth and the Clyde but, taken as a whole, this atlas with its accompanying text was a monument of rare erudition and industry. Most of the maps were admittedly reproductions (a list of 87 authors is given in the first Theatrum by Ortelius himself, growing to 183 names in the 1601 Latin edition), and many discrepancies of delineation or nomenclature occur. Three Latin editions of this (besides a Dutch, a French and a German edition) appeared before the end of 1572 twenty-five editions came out before Ortelius' death in 1598 and several others were published subsequently, for the atlas continued to be in demand until about 1612. On, Gilles Coppens de Diest at Antwerp issued Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the "first modern atlas" (of 53 maps). Quietis cultor sine lite, uxore, prole (meaning - “served quietly, without accusation, wife, and offspring.” ), reads the inscription on his tombstone. Michael's Abbey, Antwerp, were marked by public mourning. His death on 28 June 1598, and his burial in the church of St. In 1596 he received a presentation from Antwerp city, similar to that afterwards bestowed on Rubens. In this last edition, Ortelius considers the possibility of continental drift, a hypothesis proved correct only centuries later). In 1578 he laid the basis of a critical treatment of ancient geography by his Synonymia geographica (issued by the Plantin press at Antwerp and republished in expanded form as Thesaurus geographicus in 1587 and again expanded in 1596. In England Ortelius' contacts included William Camden, Richard Hakluyt, Thomas Penny, puritan controversialist William Charke, and Humphrey Llwyd, who would contribute the map of England and Wales to Ortelius's 1573 edition of the Theatrum. He also published a two-sheet map of Egypt in 1565, a plan of the Brittenburg castle on the coast of the Netherlands in 1568, an eight-sheet map of Asia in 1567, and a six-sheet map of Spain before the appearance of his atlas. This map subsequently appeared in reduced form in the Terrarum (the only extant copy is in now at Basel University Library). In 1564 he published his first map, Typus Orbis Terrarum, an eight-leaved wall map of the world, on which he identified the Regio Patalis with Locach as a northward extension of the Terra Australis, reaching as far as New Guinea. In 1560, however, when travelling with Mercator to Trier, Lorraine, and Poitiers, he seems to have been attracted, largely by Mercator’s influence, towards the career of a scientific geographer. He supplemented his income trading in books, prints, and maps, and his journeys included yearly visits to the Frankfurt book and print fair where he met Gerardus Mercator in 1554. He traveled extensively in Europe, and is specifically known to have traveled throughout the Seventeen Provinces in southern, western, northern, and eastern Germany (e.g., 1560, 1575–1576) France (1559–1560) England and Ireland (1576), and Italy (1578, and perhaps twice or thrice between 15).īeginning as a map-engraver, in 1547 he entered the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke as an illuminator of maps. In 1575 he was appointed geographer to the king of Spain, Philip II, on the recommendation of Arias Montanus, who vouched for his orthodoxy. Abraham remained close to his cousin Emanuel van Meteren who would later move to London. Following the death of Ortelius' father, his uncle Jacobus van Meteren returned from religious exile in England to take care of Ortelius. In 1535, the family had fallen under suspicion of Protestantism.
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The Orthellius family were originally from Augsburg, a Free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire. Ortelius was born in the city of Antwerp, which was then in the Habsburg Netherlands (modern-day Belgium).
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