Caspar Hennenberger

Kaspar or Caspar hen (s) mountain (s) (* 1529, † 1600) was a German priest, who was best known as a cartographer.

He came from Franks, from a place that was with Erlich and honest specified ( in Thuringia ), cf Erlichshausen.

Henneberg, whose name is specified as Hennberg, Henneberger and Hennenberger, studied theology in Königsberg, Prussia. He worked as a priest in Domnau and Georgenau, then in Mühlhausen and last in Königsberg.

He was a pastor in various places in Prussia. In 1555 he published a map of Livonia and in 1576 a map of Prussia. Willem Blaeu, cartographer Abraham Ortelius and others used the Henneberg cards on.

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