Heinrich Bünting
Heinrich Bünting (1545 – 30 December 1606) was a German Protestant pastor and theologian. He is best known for his book of woodcut maps titled Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae (Travel book through Holy Scripture) first published in 1581.
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Heinrich Bünting
Heinrich BÜNTING · Public domain
- Born
- 1545.
- Died
- 1606.
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- Germany.
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- cartographer, theologian, writer, geographer, court chaplain and superintendent.
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Bünting was born in Hannover, Germany, in 1545. He studied theology at the University of Wittenberg graduating in 1569 and became a Protestant pastor in Lemgo. He was dismissed in 1575 and moved to Gronau an der Leine. In 1591 he was appointed superintendent in Goslar. When a dispute arose over his teachings in 1600 he was dismissed and retired from the ministry. He spent the rest of his life as a private citizen in Hannover. Bünting died on 30 December 1606.
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Heinrich Bünting appears in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Getty Union List of Artist Names as a Protestant theologian, “Chronist”, geographer, “Pfarrer”, “Hofprediger”, “Superintendent”, cartographer, clergy and printmaker (1545 – 30 December 1606). The birth of Heinrich Bünting is recorded in 1545 in Hannover, and the death on 30 December 1606 in Hannover. Gronau (Leine) and Goslar are recorded as places of activity by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae
Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae
His collection of woodcut maps, Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae, first published in Magdeburg in 1581, was a very popular book in its day. It was reprinted and translated several times. The book provided the most complete summary of biblical geography available and described the Holy Land by following the travels of various notable people from the Old and New Testaments. In addition to conventional maps, the book also contained three figurative maps; the world depicted using a cloverleaf design in honor of Bünting's home city of Hanover, Europe in the form of a crowned and robed woman, and Asia as the winged horse Pegasus.
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- 1.World Digital Library. Description of the Holy Land. 1585.
- 2.Yale University. Real Places, Fanciful Visions.
- 3.Hiatt, 184, 2008 : "The pattern of the old world, redolent with civic heraldry, since the clover leaf represented the arms of Hanover..." and : "Über die Bedeutung dieses Symbols ist man sich nicht ganz im Klaren. [...] Aber wie es auch sei, es ist klar, dass das Kleeblatt seit jeher und auch jetzt noch – wenn auch in moderner Form – im Wappen von Hannover vorkommt, was Bünting inspiriert hat, es für seine Weltkarte zu benutzen.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 4
- Barber, Peter. Mapping Our World: Terra Incognita To Australia. National Library of Australia. 2013. 978-0-642-27809-8.
- van der Heijden, Henk A.M. Heinrich Büntings Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae, 1581. Ein Kapitel der biblischen Geographie. Cartographia Helvetica. 23. 5-14. 2001.
- Hiatt, Alfred. Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes Before 1600. University of Chicago Press. 2008.
- Jacob, Christian. The Sovereign Map: Theoretical Approaches in Cartography throughout History. University Of Chicago Press. 15 October 2006. 978-0-226-38953-0.
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