Bernard Wapowski

Bernard Wapowski ( born November 22, 1450 at Wapowce Przemysl, † November 25, 1535 in Kraków ) was a Polish historian and cartographer.

He was a fellow student and friend of Nicholas Copernicus, who helped him in making his map Poland. This card is the first of the principles of modern cartography following representation of the Polish territory. Wapowski created four cartographic works, namely maps of

• Poland,
• North and Südsarmatien and
• Scandinavia.

All of these cards are lost except for fragments, mainly because too Wapowskis lifetime in the great fire of Krakow in 1528, the stocks of the printer Unger were destroyed there.

Wapowski wrote a chronicle of Poland to 1535, but which was never published, is only partly preserved. Parts of it were used in the writings of Martin Cromer and Marcin Bielski.

2009 was named after him by the IAU, the moon crater Wapowski.

Works

• De bello a Sigismundo I Rege Poloniae contra Moscos Stolen Boyfriends A. MDVIII ( Krakow, 1891, ed J. Korzeniowski Scriptores Rerum Polonicarum, Vol 15)
• Carmen seu panegyris elegiacum in Victoria Sigismundi I Regis de Moschis (Rome 1515)
• Oratio coram [ ... ] Sigismundo domino brisk Poloniae invictissimo in reditu suae maiestatis ex Lithuania [ ... ] habita ( Krakow 1523)

Cards:

• Tabula Sarmatiae ( Cracow 1526-1528 )
• ( with Marcus Beneventanus ) Tabula Moderna Polonie, Ungarie, Boemie, Germanie, Russie, Lithvanie