Jodocus Hondius

Jodocus Hondius (actually Josse de Hondt; born October 14, 1563 Wakken, Flanders, † February 12, 1612 in Amsterdam) was a Flemish cartographer and publisher of atlases and maps.

Life

Hondius was born the son of Olivier de Hondt and Petronella d' Havertuyn in Flanders Wakken. Even in his earliest youth, the family moved to Ghent, where Jodocus began an apprenticeship as an engraver at the age of eight years. In 1584 Jodocus fled to London to escape the religious turmoil in Flanders during the freedom struggle of the Netherlands.

In London he studied with Richard Hakluyt and Edward Wright, before he went to Amsterdam in 1593, specializing there in the production of maps and globes. Two of his globes Jan Vermeer immortalized Astronomer and The Geographer in his paintings.

In 1600 he made a celestial globe which showed twelve new constellations of the southern sky, which had been discovered by the Dutch navigator Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser.

In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Mercator's World Atlas, who had fallen at this time of popularity Theatrum Orbis Terrarum the opposite of Abraham Ortelius. Hondius added about forty add custom maps and published this expanded edition from 1606 under the name of Mercator and his own as a publisher. This atlas, which was published in several editions, is now referred to as the Mercator-Hondius Atlas.

Family

Shortly before Hondius ' death married his daughter Elizabeth the Dutch publishing January Jansson. Hondius ' publishing was continued after 1612 by his widow and his sons Jodocus II and Henricus. From 1633 Jan Jansson was involved as a business partner and co-publisher of the further publication of the atlas.

A family relationship to the family of Hendrik Hondius the Elder and his son Willem Hondius is not secured.

Works

  • Abissinorum empire. Jodocus Hondius, 1618 amstelodami ( Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf )
  • Numerous other cards are also available there for inspection
  • Writing Master Book for the year 1594: Theatrum artis scribendi ( Fascimile of 2007, PDF, 4.6 MB).

Facsimile editions

  • The world map of 1669 by Jodocus Hondius the elder & Nicolaas Visscher, explanatory text by Günter Schilder, Amsterdam 1978, ISBN 90-6072-119-5
  • Nova Totius Europae descriptio / Jodocus Hondius & Peter Kaerius, introduction by Cornelis Koeman, Reprint of the 1595 edition of Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1967
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