Cornelius Wytfliet or Cornelis van Wytfliet (died around 1597) was a geographer from

Leuven Leuven (, ) or Louvain (, , ; german: link=no, Löwen ) is the capital and largest city of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located about east of Brussels. The municipality itself comprises the historic ...

in the Habsburg Netherlands, best known for producing the first atlas of the Americas.

Life

Cornelius was the son of Catherine Huybrechts and her husband, Gregorius Wytfliet, who was advocate fiscal of

Leuven University KU Leuven (or Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven, Belgium. It conducts teaching, research, and services in computer science, engineering, natural sciences, theology, humanities, medicine, l ...

from 1557 to 1594.

Herman Vander Linden Herman Vander Linden (1868–1956) was a Belgian historian who was a professor at the University of Liège. Life Vander Linden was born in Leuven on 27 April 1868 and was educated in the state secondary school there. He graduated doctor of philos ...

, "Wytfliet, Corneille", '' Biographie Nationale de Belgique''
vol. 27
(Brussels, 1938), 426-427. After graduating Licentiate in Laws from the University of Leuven, Wytfliet moved to Brussels and became secretary to the

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. He died in or shortly after 1597, when his ''Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum'' (a work adding new discoveries to Ptolemy's description of the world) was published.

Works

* ''Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum'' (Leuven, Joannes Bogardus, 1597) ** Reissued Leuven, Gerard Rivius, 1598 �
On Google Books
** Translated into French as ''Histoire universelle des Indes occidentales'' (Douai, François Fabri, 1607) �
On Google Books

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wytfliet, Cornelius Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown 16th-century cartographers Scientists from Leuven Old University of Leuven alumni Early modern Netherlandish cartography Belgian cartographers Flemish geographers