- Philipp Apian
Philipp
Apian (b.14 September 1531 inIngolstadt ; d.15 November 1589 inTübingen ) was a Germanmathematician andmedic . The son ofPetrus Apianus (1495-1552) is also known as thecartographer ofBavaria .Life
He was born as Philipp
Bienewitz (orBennewitz ). At age eleven, the son of mathematician, astronomer and cartographerPeter Apian started to study mathematics at theUniversity of Ingolstadt . Later, aged 18, inBurgundy ,Paris andBourges .Returning in 1552 he became professor. As Protestant he had to leave in 1569 due to
Jesuit and thecounter reformation . AtUniversity of Tübingen he lectured for 14 years until he also lost this job in 1583 after refusing to negateCalvinism .Cartography
In 1554, Duke
Albrecht of Bavaria orders Apian to create a map of Bavaria for the "Bairische Chronik" ofJohannes Aventinus written 1526 to 1533. In seven years, Apian travelled throughOberbayern andNiederbayern ,Oberpfalz ,Archbishopric Salzburg andBishopric Eichstätt . After two years work, a 5 x 5 meter sized map in scale 1:45.000 was finished, to be coloured by "Bartel Refinger".Since 1563 in the residence's library, it was destroyed by a fire in 1782.
Smaller "Bairische Landtafeln" based on the map were ordered by Philipp Apian in 1566 from
Jost Amman as 24 tables of scale 1:144.000 anfertigen. It is said that the accuracy was only surpassed in 19th century and thatNapoléon Bonaparte used them when invading Bavaria.Abraham Ortelius published them as "ex tabula Philippi Apiani."Literature
*Hans Wolff (Hg.): Philipp Apian und die Kartographie der Renaissance (Ausstellungskataloge der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek 50) 237 Seiten, Weißenhorn 1989, (Anton H. Konrad Verlag), ISBN 3874372820
External links
* [http://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0001/bsb00015529/images "Bairische Landtaflen"] , 1568, at BSB.
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* [http://mdz.bib-bvb.de/digbib/lexika/adb/images/adb046/@ebt-link?target=idmatch(entityref,adb0460025) ADB]
* [http://home.arcor.de/apian/geschichte/peter.htm Peter and Philipp Apian]
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