![]() As the Ottomans approached Vienna in 1529 (see Siege of Vienna), Honter moved first to Regensburg, and, in 1530, he registered at the Kraków's Jagiellonian University (in Poland) as "Johannes Georgii de Corona, artium magister Viennensis" (Corona is medieval Latin for Braşov). He was cited by Abraham Ortelius in the ‘Catalogus Auctorum’ of Ortelius’ famous world atlas of 1570, the ‘Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.’īorn in Braşov (Kronstadt, Brassó), Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary, nowadays Romania, he studied at the University of Vienna between 15, graduating with a magister artium title. Honter is best known for his geographic and cartographic publishing activity, as well as for implementing the Lutheran reform in Transylvania. Johannes Honter (also known as Johann Hynter Latinized as Johann Honterus or Ioannes Honterus Romanian sources may credit him as Ioan, Hungarian ones as János 1498 – 23 January 1549) was a Transylvanian Saxon, renaissance humanist and theologian. The map of North Africa gives a very clear depiction of the mouth of the Nile, while Istanbul is referred to on all maps as ‘Bizantium.’ The map of Italy is augmented by the 16th century manuscript additions of ‘Otranto,’ ‘Capo dell’arma,’ ‘Vinnza,’ ‘Bass,’ and ‘Padua.’ That of central Europe, for example, shows the Hungarian cities of Eger (Agria), Debrecen (Debricia), Vac (Vacia), and Szekesfehervar (Alba regalis) which were highly important in the mid-16th century wars with the Ottoman Turks. That of Asia depicts India, the Ganges and the Indus, numerous place names including Mecca (Mecha), ‘Bucephalus,’ and even a region called ‘Anthropophagi.’ The maps of central Europe, the Balkans and Greece are remarkably detailed for their era and format, as one would expect of such maps drawn by the Transylvanian Honter. The maps of Asia, North Africa, the Middle East (Asia Minor), the Holy Land, and the regions of continental Europe are nearly as remarkable. In the north, the American coastline is shown as parts of a large island, with a direct route to the East at the equator” - Portraits of The World.Ĭommissioned by publisher Christoph Froschauer, the woodblock for the world map was cut by Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder whose monogram HVE appears in the lower left-hand corner. “In the map, Honter has recognized Magellan’s reports of a South American continent and a vast Pacific Ocean. The heart-shaped world map is a reduced version of Waldseemüller’s and similar to the previous two world maps by Honter” 315 in Karrow’s ‘Maps and Mapmakers of the Sixteenth Century.’ TĪccording to Shirley, “In 1546 Honter’s Rudimenta Cosmographica was republished in Zürich with thirteen maps. The volume may be referenced at Shirley 86 in ‘The Mapping of the World,’ Shirley 4 in ‘Portraits of the World,’ and p. Zonis,’ printed at Basel in 1546, adorned with a fine woodcut title, a remarkable double-page cordiform world map, and 14 further woodcut maps, complete in all respects, bound in late 18th or early 19th century vellum, and in very good to excellent condition. The excessively rare and highly desirable 1546 first edition of Johannes Honter’s ‘Circuli Sphaerae. ![]() ![]() The other maps are remarkably detailed for their time and depict the order of the planets, the globe and the winds, Asia Major (including India), Asia minor (Ottoman empire), Hungary and the Balkans, North Africa, Spain and Portugal, France, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Greece, Italy, the Holy Land, and Sicily Honter’s famous and highly important atlas comprising 15 maps and the title page, and including the first state of the famous 1546 cordiform world map (the heart-shaped ‘Universalis Cosmographia’) revised from Waldseemuller Zonis.’ Karrow calls this atlas “the first widely circulated collection of maps.” He 1546 first edition of Johannes Honter’s world atlas, ‘Circuli Sphaerae.
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