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Last Name Geelkercken

Given Name Nicolaes van

alt. Names N. G. ; Nikolaus Geylekerck / Nicolaas van Geelkerken ;

Marriage

Children 3 sons: Isaac van Geelkercken, Jacob van Geelkercken, and Arnold van Geelkercken.

Year born 1585

Year died 1656 or 1657

Place of death

Father's occupation Arnold van Geelkerken (1570 c. -1619)

Relatives cartographer Arnoldus van Geelkercken (1570/1572-1602) (brother);

Education trained as surveyor and cartographer ;

Country of Activity Netherlands

Worked for De stad Worcum in Vrieslandt ; A 1641 dit landt aende Kemperberg ; Alpinae seu Foederatae Rhaetiae Subditarumque Ei Terrarum nova descriptio ; Summa Europæ Antiquæ descriptio ; Germaniæ populorum inter Rhenum et Albim amneis, ut à Traiani imperio, et circa Marcellini aetatem incoluerunt, descri

Patronage Johannes Janssonius / Jan Jansson (1588-1664)

Collaborators -> Philipp Clüver (1580-1622) ;

Techniques topographical and geographical drawing and copperplate engraving ; cartographic map-making ;

Sample(s) https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaes_van_Geelkercken#/media/File:Vossenbroek_emst_1640.png ; ... /File:Borculo_1642.jpg ;.../File:Vreden_1649.png ;

Archival sources Ostfriesisches Landesmuseum, Emden; https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaes_van_Geelkercken ;

Published sources P. H. Meurer: Der Kartograph N. v. G., in: Heimatkalender des Kreises Heinsberg 2001: 79-97 ; De jonge N.v.G., Caert-Thresoor 20,2 (2001): 41-47 ;

other Further Place of Activity: North-West Germany (Ostfriesland).

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