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Mercator, Gerard

Record IDcnp01355754
URIhttp://data.cerl.org/thesaurus/cnp01355754
Gendermale
Biographical Data1512 - 1594
Place of BirthKruibek (Belgique)
Place of DeathDuisbourg (Allemagne)
Last Edit2024-10-30

General Note

Geograph, Kartograph, Deutschland, Flandern
Géographe, cartographe, cosmographe et mathématicien. Matière nom commun associée: Mercator, Projection de. Note de regroupement par domaine: Géographie (910).
http://dbnl-srv-p200.dmz.kb.nl/auteurs/auteur.php?id=merc009
kartograaf-graveur (vanaf ca. 1530 in de Bourgondische Nederlanden), instrumentmaker universiteit Leuven
geb. 5 maart 1512 in Rupelmonde als Gerhard Kremer of Cremer. In 1530 schreef hij zich in aan de Universiteit van Leuven en tijdens die periode verlatiniseerde hij zijn naam in 'Mercator' (bron: Gerard Mercator, cartograaf 1512-1594. - Bruxelles : Gemeentekrediet, 1994. - pag. 5)
Note de regroupement par domaine: Géographie, tourisme (guides) et voyages (910)

More Information

Further Biographical Data1512-1594
05.03.1512-02.12.1594
Rupelmonde, 05.03.1512-02.12.1594
05.03.1512-02.12.1594
Intellectual ResponsibilityAuteur
Primary Language(s)Latin
ActivityKartograf, rytownik, wydawca flamandzki, ur. w Rupelmonde, działąkł głównie w Duisburgu, właśc. Gerhard Kremer.
Personen zu Geografie, Heimat- und Länderkunde (19.1dp) (sswd)
Personen zu Geodäsie, Kartografie (19.2p) (sswd)
Personen zu Mathematik (28p) (sswd)
Personen zu Philosophie (4.7p) (sswd)
Geograf (gnd)
Kartograf (gnd)
Mathematiker (gnd)
Philosoph (gnd)
Theologe (gnd)
CountryBelgien
Deutschland
Geographic NoteBE (iso3166)
DE (iso3166)
NL (iso3166)
NationalityDutch

Place of Activity

Place of BirthRupelmonde (1512)
Lieu de naissance
Rupelmonde
Geburtsort
Kruibek (Belgique) (1512)
Lieu de naissance
Place of ActivityDuisburg
Wirkungsort
Löwen
Wirkungsort
Place of DeathDuisburg
Sterbeort
Duisbourg (Allemagne) (1594)
Lieu de mort

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Mercator, Rumold, 1545-1599
Beziehung familiaer. -- Sohn
See alsoMercator, Gerhard, 1565-1656
Beziehung familiaer. -- Enkel
Neufville, Tilemannus ¬de¬, -1607
Beziehung familiaer. -- Schwiegersohn

Names

HeadingMercator, Gerard
used in: Biblioteka Narodowa, Warszawa
Mercator, Gerhard
used in: Integrated Authority File (GND), Germany
Mercator, Gerard
used in: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris; Koninklijke Bibliotheek - National Library of the Netherlands, Den Haag (Netherlands)
Mercator, Gerard
used in: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Mercator, Gerhard
used in: Common Library Network (GBV), Göttingen (Germany)
Mercator, Gerard
used in: Koninklijke Bibliotheek - National Library of the Netherlands, Den Haag (Netherlands)
Kremer, Gerhard
used in: Bibliography of books published in German-speaking countries in 16th century (VD 16), Munich (Germany)
Variant NameKramer, Gerhard
Mercator, Gerardus
Mercator, Gerhard
Cramer, Gerhard
Cremer, Gerard ¬de¬
Cremer, Gérard
Cremers, Gerhardus
Kremer, Gerard
Kremer, Gerhard
Kremer, Gerhard, der Ältere
Kremer, Gérard
Krämer d.Ä., Gerhard
Mercator, Gerard
Mercator, Gerhard, der Ältere
Mercator, Gerhard, the elder
Mercator, Gerhardus
Mercator, Guérard
Mercatore Rupelmundano, Gerardo
Mercatoris, Gerardi
Rupelmundano, Gerardo Mercatore
Mercatore, Gerardo
Mercator, ...
Cremer, Gerhard
Mercator Rupelmundanus, Gerardus
Cremer, Geerd ¬de¬
Mercatorus, Gerardus

Sources

Found inAtlantes Neerlandici. / Ir. C. Koeman. Vol. 2.- Amsterdam, cop. 1969. (s.281-283). — Tooley's Dictionary... vol. 3, 2003. (s. 238-40). — KB (Holandia) online. — Sphère terrestre et sphère céleste / de Gérard Mercator, 1875. — "Atlas minor" / de Guérard Mercator ; traduit de latin en françois, par le sieur de La Popelinière, anno 1613, [s. d.]. — Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas, sive Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura, 1607. — La Biographie nationale, Belgique : Mercator (Gérard de Cremer, dit) - https://www.academieroyale.be/fr/la-biographie-nationale-personnalites (2022-05-31). — Bibliothèque royale, catalogue, Belgique : Mercator, Gerard - https://opac.kbr.be (2022-05-31). — Hoefer. — Tooley, 1979. — BN Cat. gén. : Mercator (Gerhard Kremer, dit). — LCAuth. — AKL (online)
Imprint SourcesGerardi Mercatoris Atlas, sive Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura, 1607
Mercator, Gerhard: Atlas Novus, sive Descriptio Geographica totius orbis terrarum, Tabu
Mercator, Gerhard: Chronologia. - 1569
Mercator, Gerhard: Evangelicae historiae quadripartita Monas. - [ca. 1592]
Mercator, Gerhard: Historia mundi, or Mercator's atlas. - 1635
Mercator, Gerhard: Literarum latinarum quas italicas, cursoriasque vocent, scribendarum r*. - 1930
Mercator, Gerhard: Tabularum Ptolemaicarum delineatio. - 1618
Atlas sive Cosmographicæ meditationes de fabrica... / By Gerardus Mercator. ; Enlarged by J. Hondius..., 1606
Atlas minor, das ist: Eine kurtze jedoch gründli... / [By Gerardus Mercator]..., 1651
depiction of ...
Gerardus Mercator, original caption: "I. Portrait of Mercator at the age of 62, engraved by Frans Hogenberg, 1574"
[Frans Hogenberg / Gerardus Mercator, Jodocus Hondius & Jan Janssonius: Atlas or a geographicke description of the world. english edition, first published 1636, reprint of 1968, page VII -- Public domain -- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gerardus Mercator2.jpg]

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Porträt Gerhard Mercator (1512 - 1594)
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Porträt Gerhard Mercator (1512 - 1594)
[This image from the German Museum of Books and Writing collection "Portraits of printers, editors, book dealers and book binders" is freely available under CC0 1.0]

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