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Digital Image: 1735 Homann Heirs map of Prussian Lithuania
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Title
Potentissimo Borussorum Regi Friderico Wilhelmo Majestate Fortitudine Clementia Augustissimo Hancce Lithuaniam Borussicam : in qua loca colonijs Salisburg. ad incolendum Regio nutu concessa chorographice exhibentur D.D.D. Regiae Suae Maiestatis.
1735 (dated) 38 x 23 in (96.52 x 58.42 cm) 1 : 188000
1735 (dated) 38 x 23 in (96.52 x 58.42 cm) 1 : 188000
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Homann Heirs (1730 - 1848) were a map publishing house based in Nurenburg, Germany, in the middle to late 18th century. After the great mapmaker Johann Baptist Homann's (1664 - 1724) death in 1724, management of the firm passed to his son Johann Christoph Homann (1703 - 1730). J. C. Homann, perhaps realizing that he would not long survive his father, stipulated in his will that the company would be inherited by his two head managers, Johann Georg Ebersberger (1695 - 1760) and Johann Michael Franz (1700 - 1761), and that it would publish only under the name 'Homann Heirs'. This designation, in various forms (Homannsche Heirs, Heritiers de Homann, Lat Homannianos Herod, Homannschen Erben, etc..) appears on maps from about 1731 onwards. The firm continued to publish maps in ever diminishing quantities until the death of its last owner, Christoph Franz Fembo (1781 - 1848). More by this mapmaker...
Johann-Friedrich Betgen (1721? - 1738) was a surveyor and mapmaker, whose name survives in connection with a single work: the Homann Heirs map of Lithuania Minor. If the dates for Betgen are correct, his 1733 contribution to that map was done at the tender age of twelve. It seems likely that his role was circumscribed to the plan of Gusev which appeared on the broader map: a work so professional and detailed that to credit it to a child beggars the imagination. Nothing is known of Betgen's life and training, although his family name suggests a Dutch background. Learn More...
References
OCLC 165798586.