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Last Name Honter / de Hont

Given Name Johannes

alt. Names J. H. ; Johannes Honterus / Johann Hynter / Ioannes Honterus ;

Marriage in 1535 w. Anna (dauther of Joh. Neutze from Flanders)

Children 3 sons, 4 daughters

Year born 1498 in Braşov, Transylvania, nowadays Romania

Year died 1549

Place of death Braşov, Transylvania, nowadays Romania

Father's occupation Georg Gras, Lederer (called Jörg Lederer)

Relatives mother Dorothea Hon(n)es (not Anna Neutze)

Education studies mathematics & sciences at the Univ. of Vienna 1520-25

Country of Activity Romania

Worked for map "onion-shaped map of the world with Japan" (Zurich 1546) ; J.H.: Rudimentorum cosmographiae libri duo (1530), since 1542: Rudimenta cosmographica libri IV ;

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Techniques cartographical drawing and woodcutting ;

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Archival sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Honter ; https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz33715.html ;

Published sources Hans Gerch Philippi: J.H., NDB 9 (1972): 603-604; L. Bogrow, Cat. Cartographorum, in: Petermanns Mitteilungen, Ergänzungsheft 199 (1928); H. Dehmel, De Hont in Flandern - J. H., in: Siebenbürg. Archiv, Archiv d. Ver. f. Siebenbürg. Landeskde., 3. Folge, Bd. 1, 1962; Walter 1994: plate 7 ; Focus 1993: 93

other Further Places of Activity: Austria (Vienna), Germany (Regensburg), Poland (Kraków), and Switzerland (Basel between 1530 and 1532 as a woodcutter), and Belgium.

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