Matthias Quad (1557–1613) was an engraver and

cartographer Cartography (; from , 'papyrus, sheet of paper, map'; and , 'write') is the study and practice of making and using maps. Combining science, aesthetics and technique, cartography builds on the premise that reality (or an imagined reality) can ...

from

Cologne Cologne ( ; ; ) is the largest city of the States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city pr ...

. He was the first European mapmaker to use dotted lines to indicate international borders.Helmut Walser Smith, ''The Continuities of German History'' (Cambridge University Press, 2008), p. 44.

Life

Matthias Quad was born and learnt engraving in the

Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...

. An engraver in wood and stone, Quad collaborated with the Cologne publisher Johann Bussemacher to publish a quarto atlas of

Europe Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east ...

in 1592. This was expanded into a ''Geographisches Handtbuch'' (1599), with more text than maps, and then into a proper atlas, ''Fasciculus Geographicus'' (1608).

Works

* ''Europea totius orbis terrarum praestantissimae...'', 1592
1596 edition on Internet Archive
* ''Globi terrestris compendium'', 1598
On Google Books
* ''Enchiridion Cosmographicum'', 1599
On Google Books
* ''Geographisches Handtbuch'', 1599/1600
On Google Books
* ''Deliciae Germaniae sive totius Germaniae itinerarium'', 1600
On Google Books
* ''Itinerarium Universae Germaniae'', 1602
On Google Books
* ''Deliciae Hispaniae et index viatorius indicans itinera'', 1604
On Google Books
* ''Fasciculus Geographicus'', 1608
On Google Books

References

1557 births 1613 deaths 16th-century German engravers 17th-century German engravers German cartographers Businesspeople from Cologne Emigrants from the Dutch Republic Immigrants to the Holy Roman Empire {{Geographer-stub