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Abraham Ortelius

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Abraham Ortelius

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Also known as Abraham Ortels, Abraham Oertel, Abram Ortellio, A. Ortelius, Ortelius

Flemish cartographer, geographer and cosmographer (1527–1598)

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Abraham Ortelius was a male cartographer, historian, engraver, and geographer from the Spanish Netherlands. Born in Antwerp, he worked in that city and died there in 1598. His primary field of work was cartography and geography, and he wrote in Latin. Ortelius was a member of the Catholic Church.

His notable work includes *Theatrum Orbis Terrarum*. Other recorded works include *Abrahami Ortelii Antuerpiani Thesaurus geographicus* and *Abrahami Ortelii Theatri orbis terrarvm parergon*. His works are held in collections such as the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Australian National Maritime Museum, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, and the State Library of New South Wales.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1527
Died
1598
Works
68

Top works

  • Abrahami Ortelii Antuerpiani Thesaurus geographicus
  • Abrahami Ortelii Theatri orbis terrarvm parergon
  • Gotfr. Hegeniti Itinerarium frisio-hollandicum, et Abr. Ortelii Itinerarium gallo-brabanticum ...
  • C. Iulii Caesaris Quae extant ex emendatione Ios. Scaligeri
  • Petri Divaei ... Opera varia: scilicet rerum Lovaniensium libri IV

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Netherlands
Active from
1935-04-11
Active to
2022-11-08
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Discography

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. GROMACS: High performance molecular simulations through multi-level parallelism from laptops to supercomputers

    · 2015 · cited 25,304x

  2. Smoothing and Differentiation of Data by Simplified Least Squares Procedures.

    · 1964 · cited 18,672x

  3. Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    · 2012 · cited 10,801x

  4. A default mode of brain function

    · 2001 · cited 10,441x

  5. A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    · 2012 · cited 9,260x

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Works in European collections

2 objects attributed to Abraham Ortelius, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Nomenclator ptolemaicus; omnia locorum vocabula quae in tota ptolemaei geographia ocurrunt, continens ad fidem graeci codicis purgatus; & in ordinem non minus utilem quam elegantem digestus

Nomenclator ptolemaicus; omnia locorum vocabula quae in tota ptolemaei geographia ocurrunt, continens ad fidem graeci codicis purgatus; & in ordinem non minus utilem quam elegantem digestus

Theatrum orbis terrarum

Theatrum orbis terrarum

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Encyclopedic overview

Abraham Ortelius (/ɔːrˈtiːliəs/ or-TEE-lee-əs; also Ortels, Orthellius or Wortels; 4 or 14 April 1527 – 28 June 1598) was a cartographer, geographer, and cosmographer from Antwerp in the Spanish Netherlands. He is recognized as the creator of the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ('Theatre of the World'). Along with Gemma Frisius and Gerardus Mercator, Ortelius is generally considered one of the founders of the Netherlandish school of cartography and geography. He was a notable figure of this school in its golden age (approximately 1570s–1670s) and an important geographer of Spain during the age of discovery. The publication of his atlas in 1570 is often considered as the official beginning of the Golden Age of Netherlandish cartography. He was the first person proposing that the continents were joined before drifting to their present positions.

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