Jens Michelsen Beck

Jens Michelsen Beck was a surveyor, cartographer, planter class and geographer (1721–1791). He was born at Nyborg and died at Gentofte.

Also recorded as Jens Michelsen Bec.

Jens Michelsen Beck in brief

Born
1721
Died
1791
Known for
surveyor, cartographer, planter class and geographer
Place of birth
Nyborg
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Catalogued works

5 works under this name are catalogued by The Art Institute of Chicago. Their recorded dates run from 1516 to 1960.

Theuerdank Received by Ehrenreich, from Teuerdank, plate 22 from Woodcuts from Books of the XVI Century, dated 1517, woodcut in black on vellum, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1938.88.22. Saint Ferreolus, from Saints Connected with the House of Habsburg, dated 1517, woodcut in black on ivory wove paper, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1937.185. Nude, rear, dated 1960/63, lithograph (crayon) in black on paper, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1999.819. Saint Emesbertus, from Saints Connected with the House of Habsburg, dated 1522/1551, woodcut in black on ivory laid paper, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1939.241. Saint Rolandus, from Saints Connected with the House of Habsburg, dated 1516, woodcut in black on ivory laid paper, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1939.240.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

The Art Institute of Chicago: 5 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

3 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Jens Michelsen Beck's Map of a Danish West Indian Sugar-Plantation Island: Eighteenth-Century Colonial Cartography, Land Administration, Speculation, and Fraud, Terrae Incognitae, 1993. Burghard Piltz / Jens Bredow, Incoterms, Kommentar, 2016, XXIII, 720 S., Leinen, Verlag C.H. Beck München, Internationales Handelsrecht, 2016. Jens Schröter, Die Entstehung des Christentums. Von den Anfängen bis zu Konstantin dem Großen. München, C. H. Beck 2024, Historische Zeitschrift, 2026.

Evidence base

This article draws on 2 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 2 means 2 genuinely separate publishers of record. 24 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Chronology

  1. 1516Saint Rolandus, from Saints Connected with the House of Habsburg (The Art Institute of Chicago).
  2. 1517Theuerdank Received by Ehrenreich, from Teuerdank, plate 22 from Woodcuts from Books of the XVI Century (The Art Institute of Chicago).
  3. 1517Saint Ferreolus, from Saints Connected with the House of Habsburg (The Art Institute of Chicago).
  4. 1522Saint Emesbertus, from Saints Connected with the House of Habsburg (The Art Institute of Chicago).
  5. 1721Jens Michelsen Beck born at Nyborg.
  6. 1791Jens Michelsen Beck died at Gentofte.
  7. 1960Nude, rear (The Art Institute of Chicago).

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    Burghard Piltz / Jens Bredow, Incoterms, Kommentar, 2016, XXIII, 720 S., Leinen, Verlag C.H. Beck München, Internationales Handelsrecht, 2016

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  2. 2.

    Jens Michelsen Beck's Map of a Danish West Indian Sugar-Plantation Island: Eighteenth-Century Colonial Cartography, Land Administration, Speculation, and Fraud, Terrae Incognitae, 1993

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  3. 3.

    Jens Schröter, Die Entstehung des Christentums. Von den Anfängen bis zu Konstantin dem Großen. München, C. H. Beck 2024, Historische Zeitschrift, 2026

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  4. 4.

    The Art Institute of Chicago, collection records associated with Jens Michelsen Beck.

    museum collection · Unverified · The Art Institute of Chicago

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  5. 5.

    “Jens Michelsen Beck”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

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  6. 6.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q111571054: Jens Michelsen Beck

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikidata

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