Historical atlas

A historical atlas is a systematic work of cartography, which, for example, summarizing a situation of the past one event in world history, through a series of thematic maps as atlas.

Term

The term Historical Atlas is clearly used in the kartografiehistorischen literature. A single card is called the history card.

Historical atlases are often dubbed by card publishers but as Historical Atlas. This term is somewhat ambiguous, since it can also be understood as an old atlas. The situation is different in English, where historical atlas always means a Historical Atlas. Of course, a Historical Atlas, published about before 1850 or 1800, be the same "old".

History of historical atlases

An early example is the 1721 by Herman Moll ( 1654-1732 ) printed in London Atlas Thirty two new and accurate maps of the Geography of the Ancients.

Paving the way for further development as a national standard work was the first time in 1877 presented by Friedrich Wilhelm Putzger and appearing to today Historical School Atlas in Germany. This includes maps of orders of battle of historical importance equipped school atlas impressed with its now more than 100 editions, the understanding of history of generations.

As a demanding Historical Atlas with more accurate topographic base maps to 1886 Gustav Droysens General Historical Hand Atlas, published in Velhagen & Klasing, headed by Richard Andree established.

The Hans Zeissig developed in collaboration with foreign academic specialists 1950 New Historical and Cultural Atlas of the prehistoric times to the present day from the Paul List Verlag was the character of a work book for the cultural and historical lessons.

A more modern development is the first time in 1964/1966 by Hermann Kinder and Werner Hilgemann submitted dtv - Atlas of World History, who has a form of representation of historical processes found by translations worldwide distribution and in its presentation technology also influenced the cartography in historical museums. In the GDR, published in 1976 by ​​the Central Institute for the History of supervised Academy of Sciences of the GDR communist Atlas of the story. The most comprehensive German Historical Atlas of the Great Historical World Atlas of the Bavarian school book publishing in four volumes, published 1953-95 in Munich.

Purpose

Historical atlases are used for visualization of historical events, situations and developments. In addition to the basic card to historical borders is the thematic map of importance, for example, with the representation of natural resources and farms.

Typical topics of the cards of a Historical Atlas include:

  • Military battles and general course of war;
  • The routes of expeditions;
  • The spread of culture, such as the Gothic cathedrals;
  • Representation of population trends;
  • Territorial changes, for example after a peace treaty;
  • Legal conditions after areas, such as the city of the eastern settlement rights or civil law in Germany before the introduction of the Civil Code;
  • Old post way with the corresponding distances in days or weeks expected.

Besides cards offer many historical atlases additional charts and other graphs, also examples of old maps representations (such as the Tabula Peutingeriana ).

Bible Atlas

A Bible Atlas contains maps of the geographical and temporal space of the biblical narratives, ie, mainly the ancient Near East. In addition to geographical and political maps include other thematic maps, such as the vegetation, the spread of particular religions or the journeys of the Apostle Paul. In addition, explanatory texts, images and other graphics are often inserted.

Online historical atlases

  • F. W. Putzger 's historical school atlas of ancient, middle and modern history, edition of 1877
  • F. W. Putzger Historical School Atlas, edition of 1905
  • F. W. Putzger Historical School Atlas, edition of 1914
  • Richard Andree: Professor G. Droysens General Historical Hand Atlas, 1886
  • Reginald Lane Poole: Historical Atlas of Modern Europe, 1902
  • Atlas Historique.net © Guillaume Balavoine
  • IEG - MAPS - Server for digital historical maps at the Institute for European History in Mainz
  • Digital Atlas of the history of Europe since 1500 at the Institute for European History in Mainz
  • Historical and topographical atlas Silesian cities of the Herder Institute in Marburg
  • Historical Atlas of Bavaria
  • Historical Atlas of Hesse
  • Historical Atlas of Saxony ( 1815)
  • Bibliophile Bookbase
  • History on maps / by András Bereznay
  • Historical Maps - Germany at the end of the 18th century © Thomas Höckmann
  • Schwartzberg, Joseph E.: A Historical Atlas of South Asia, 2nd impr; . 1992 ( an offer to the Digital South Asia Library, Center for Research Libraries )
  • Historical atlas of Armenia © R. H. Hewsen; from a total of 15 historical maps
  • Historical Atlas of Europe in 21 cards
  • History Cards for Prussian territorial development of the Secret State Archives Prussian. Cultural Heritage Berlin
  • Historical maps of the Arab World
  • Link collection of Euratlas
  • Digital Librarian ( collection of links )
  • Past history atlases in the digital textbook library of the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research ( GEI Digital)
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