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Digital Image: 1728 Stöcklein Map of the Amazon based on its Earliest Firsthand Mapping
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Title
Strom Maragnon Autore R. P. Samuele Fritz, é Soc. Iesu. Prov. Bohem. 1707. Delineatus.
1728 (dated 1707) 8.5 x 13.5 in (21.59 x 34.29 cm) 1 : 12213394
1728 (dated 1707) 8.5 x 13.5 in (21.59 x 34.29 cm) 1 : 12213394
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Joseph Stöcklein [Stoecklein] (July 30, 1676 – December 28, 1733) was a Jesuit priest, missionary, and scholar active in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. He was born in Oettingen, Germany and joined the Jesuit order in Vienna around 1700. He served as a priest in military encampments where he became popular as a preacher. Afterwards he became the head of the Jesuit library in Graz, Switzerland, a position he maintained for six years. During this tenure he began work on his opus, the Welt-Bott, a vast compilation of Jesuit missionary letters and narratives translated into vernacular German intended both to glorify the priesthood and share valuable information about the world. Today this work is exceedingly rare. More by this mapmaker...
Samuel Fritz (1654 - 1728), was a Jesuit missionary born in Trutnov, Bohemia, what is now part of the Czech Republic. He took orders with the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits, in 1673. As a young Jesuit with missionary ambitions he was educated in humanistics, philosophy, and probably cartography. In 1683, he requested a missionary post in the New World and was sent to Quito where his superior, Father Lorenzo Lucero, assigned him to incorporate the Omagua tribes between the Rio Negro and the Napo River into the Maynas Missions. He spent 42 years in South America, and founded thirty-eight missions along the length of the Amazon River, in the country between the Rio Napo and Rio Negrond. His aid having been sought by the Viceroyalty of Peru in its boundary dispute with the State of Brazil, Fritz mapped the missionary territory on the Upper Maranon between Peru and Quito, resulting the first approximately correct chart of the Maranon territory. Both his map and the account of his imprisonment as a suspected Spanish spy were widely disseminated in the 18th century. Learn More...
Source
Stocklein, J. Neuer Weltbott. (Augsburg: Grätz) 1728.
References
OCLC 801675645