Henricus Hondius

Henricus Hondius II., auch Hendrik Hondius der Jüngere (* 1597 in Amsterdam; † 16. August 1651 ebenda), war ein niederländischer Kupferstecher, Kartograf und Verleger.

Leben

Hondius war der Sohn des berühmten Kartographen Jodocus Hondius, der in Amsterdam ein kartographisches Unternehmen gegründet hatte.[1] Nachdem Hendrik zunächst im elterlichen Betrieb mitgearbeitet hatte, gründete er 1621 in seiner Heimatstadt einen eigenen Verlag. 1633 ging Henricus eine Partnerschaft mit dem Kartographen und seinem Schwager Johannes Janssonius ein, und gemeinsam führten sie das Geschäft weiter. 1641 gab er eine neue Auflage des Mercator-Hondius-Atlas mit veränderten Hondius-Karten heraus[2].

Werke

  • 1622 Oostelijk Zeeuws Vlaanderen

    1622 Oostelijk Zeeuws Vlaanderen

  • Saxoniae superioris Lusatiae Misniaeque descriptio, Karte aus dem Mercator-Hondius-Atlas von 1627

    Saxoniae superioris Lusatiae Misniaeque descriptio, Karte aus dem Mercator-Hondius-Atlas von 1627

  • 1630 Weltkarte, Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula

    1630 Weltkarte, Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula

  • 1631 Afrika

    1631 Afrika

  • 1636 Nordamerika

    1636 Nordamerika

  • 1641 Karte der Schlösser in der Umgebung von Ypern, Belgien

    1641 Karte der Schlösser in der Umgebung von Ypern, Belgien

  • Pieter van den Broecke

    Pieter van den Broecke

  • Dänemark 17. Jahrhundert

    Dänemark 17. Jahrhundert

Literatur

Weblinks

Commons: Hendrik Hondius – Sammlung von Bildern, Videos und Audiodateien

Einzelnachweise

  1. ↑ Venezuela with the Southern Part of New Andalusia. In: loc.gov. Abgerufen am 8. Juli 2022.
  2. ↑ Maps of World: Henricus Hondius (Memento vom 11. April 2009 im Internet Archive).
Personendaten
NAMEHondius, Henricus
ALTERNATIVNAMENHondt, Hendrik de; Hondius, Hendrik der Jüngere
KURZBESCHREIBUNGniederländischer Kartograf und Verleger
GEBURTSDATUM1597
GEBURTSORTAmsterdam
STERBEDATUM16. August 1651
STERBEORTAmsterdam

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1641 Ieper + Blaeu HR.JPG
Kaart van de kastelen in de omgeving van Ieper, België
Saxonia superioris lusatiae.jpg
Darstellung Obersachsens, der Lausitz und Meißens
Nova totius Terrarum Orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula (Hendrik Hondius) balanced.jpg

This is an image of Nova totius Terrarum Orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula, a map of the world created by Hendrik Hondius in 1630, and published the following year in the atlas Atlantis Maioris Appendix.

Among its claims to notability is the fact that it was the first dated map published in an atlas, and therefore the first widely available map, to show any part of Australia, the only previous map to do so being Hessel Gerritsz' 1627 Caert van't Landt van d'Eendracht ("Chart of the Land of Eendracht"), which was not widely distributed.

The Australian coastline shown is part of the west coast of Cape York Peninsula, discovered by Jan Carstensz in 1623. Curiously, the map does not show the west coast features shown in Gerritsz' Caert.
Hondius-Jansson America Septentrionalis 1636 UTA.jpg
This famous Dutch map exhibits the general state of European knowledge (and ignorance) about North America at the time of its first publication in 1636. Much of the hard earned knowledge came from danger filled explorations funded by various chartered companies. The map shows Hudson's Bay, reflecting knowledge of the results of Hudson's last fatal voyage of 1610 under the auspices of the English Virginia and East India Companies. Nearby Button's Bay was named for Welshman Thomas Button who had explored it in 1612 while seeking to determine what happened to Hudson and his followers who had been cast adrift by mutineers the year before. The Company of the Merchants Discoverers of the North-West Passage, or Northwest Company, funded Button's voyage. Dutch knowledge of his discovery and the depiction of California as an island probably came from Englishman Henry Brigg's map The North Part of America, published 1625 in Samuel Purchas' compendium of travel accounts titled Purchas, His Pilgrims. "Lac de Champlain" and the extension of the St. Lawrence to "Lac des Iroquois" (Lake Ontario) provide evidence of Champlain's extensive explorations associated with French companies granted monopolies on fur trading and colonization.


Henricus Hondius and his brother-in-law and partner Joannes Janssonius were heirs to an extensive family cartography, printing, and publishing business. In 1602 Henricus' father Jodocus had acquired the copperplates for the maps in Mercator's Atlas, which the Hondius family continued to publish for a number of years. In 1629 Hondius and Janssonius began work on a complete revision or Atlas Novus.
1622 Caerte van t'Vrije - sijnde een gedeelte en lidt van Vlaenderen - Visscher.jpg
17de Eeuwse kaart van het westelijk gedeelte van Zeeuws Vlaanderen
Daniae Gerardus Mercator Henricus Hondius 37 44.jpg
Autor/Urheber: Bairuilong, Lizenz: CC BY-SA 4.0
17th-century maps of Denmark. Cartographer: Gerard Mercator. Produced by Henricus Hondius.
Africa 1631, Hendrik Hondius (3824997-recto).jpg
Africæ nova tabula
Nouvelle Afrique
Relief shown pictorially. Decorated with sailing ships, fish and other animals. Verso pages numbered 621 and 624. Garson, Y. Africa in Europe's eyes, 24 (Description from: North West University Library)