Andreas Walsperger
Illustration — Map of Andreas Walsperger, around 1448 Andreas Walsperger (born c. 1415 in Radkersburg; date of death unknown) was a German cartographer of the 15th century. The son of a carpenter, he became a Benedictine monk at St.
Andreas Walsperger
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- 1415. · Bad Radkersburg.
- Occupation
- geographer, cartographer and monk.
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Illustration — Map of Andreas Walsperger, around 1448 Andreas Walsperger (born c. 1415 in Radkersburg; date of death unknown) was a German cartographer of the 15th century. The son of a carpenter, he became a Benedictine monk at St.
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Peter's in Salzburg in 1434. He left the monastery in 1442. Little more is known about him except that in 1448/9 he created his map in Konstanz.
The map of Andreas Walsperger is a Latin Mappa Mundi, atypical in its depiction of Africa and in its placing a large castle in China, where others including Fra Mauro's place their grand castle to the north. In Germany, the only other example of the type is the "Mappa mundi Ciziensis" from Zeitz. The parchment measures 57.7 x 75 cm.
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In the sixteenth century, the Fugger family may have owned the map. In 1622, it was given to Pope Gregory XV by Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria and is now held in the Vatican Library Palatina (Lat. 1362 B).
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Life and career
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1415
Andreas Walsperger born at Bad Radkersburg.
1987
Weltkarte des Andreas Walsperger is dated 1987.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q2558271: Andreas Walsperger
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- “Andreas Walsperger”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- 1.Siehe zu Walsperger
- 2.Homepage der Stadt Bad Radkersburg.
- 3.So die Angabe des Autors selbst auf der Karte (Kretschmer: Eine neue mittelalterliche Weltkarte, S. 372).
- 4.Kretschmer: Eine neue mittelalterliche Weltkarte, S. 376f.
- 5.Pal. lat. 1362 A der Vatikanischen Apostolischen Bibliothek.
- 6.Konrad Kretschmer: Marino Sanuto d. Ä. und die Karten des Petrus Vesconte. In: Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin 26 (1891), S. 352–370.
- 7.Kretschmer: Eine neue mittelalterliche Weltkarte, S. 371.
- 8.Ludwig Schuba: Die Quadriviums-Handschriften der Codices Palatini Latini in der Vatikanischen Bibliothek. Wiesbaden, 1992, S. 46. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Cod. Pal. lat. 1915, fol. 551r (Kopie des Katalogs der Fuggerbibliothek).
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