Martin Helwig

Martin Helwig's map (in reverse) of Silesia

Martin Helwig (5 November 1516 – 26 January 1574) was a German cartographer of and from Silesia. He was born in Neisse and died in Breslau, Holy Roman Empire.

The former student of Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon in Wittenberg in 1561 copper-etched a map, a single-sheet cartouche of Silesia, which he published under the title "Silesiae Typus" and dedicated to Nicolaus Rhedinger, councilmen of Breslau (Wrocław). His map was later republished in several versions of Abraham Ortelius's pioneering world atlas "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum".

External links

• Martin Helwig in the German National Library catalogue (German)
• (1880) (in German). "Martin Helwig". In Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). 11. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. pp. 718.
• Entry in Zedlers Universallexikon, Vol. 12, p. 687

• Breslau, Silesia, Germany map c 1600

Persondata
Name	Helwig, Martin
Alternative names
Short description	German cartographer of Silesia
Date of birth	5 November 1516
Place of birth	Neisse
Date of death	26 January 1574
Place of death	Breslau