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Last Name Pfinzing the Elder
Given Name Paul
alt. Names P. P. ; Pfinzing the Elder ;
Marriage 1: Sabine Lindner (1564-1594) in 1585 ; 2: Anna Pömer (1566-1606) in 1596 ;
Children with 1: 4 sons, among them cartographer -> Paul P. the Younger (1588-1631) and 5 daughters ; with 2: 3 further daughters
Year born 1554 in Nuremberg ?
Year died 1599
Place of death Nuremberg
Father's occupation merchant Martin II. Pfinzing (1521-1572) from Leipzig
Relatives Martin I. Pfinzing (1490-1552) (grandfather) ; Katharina Pfinzing (1529-1591) (mother) ; member of Nuremberg based family Pfinzing von Henfenfeld
Education
Country of Activity Germany
Worked for Pfinzing-Atlas (1594) ;
Patronage
Collaborators Hiernonymus Braun (1566-1620) ;
Techniques cartographical drawing
Sample(s) http://www.kgv.roethenbach.de/geschichtl.htm ; http://www.nuernbergwiki.de/index.php/Pfinzing-Atlas
Archival sources https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Pfinzing ; http://www.gymnasium-hersbruck.de/node/5
Published sources Diefenbacher, Heinz & Bach-Damaskinos 2002: 13 & 14 ; Ernst Gagel: Paul Pfinzing – Seine Leistung für die deutsche Kartographie. o. O., [1945] ; Menso Folkerts: Pfinzing, Paul. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB), vol. 20 (Berlin 2001), p. 335 ;
other https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/gnd118593595.html#ndbcontent ;
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