Gerardus (de Kremer) Mercator
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Gerard (de Kremer) Mercator (1512 - 1594)

Gerard (Gerardus) Mercator formerly de Kremer
Born in Rupelmonde, graafschap Vlaanderen, Habsburgse Nederlandenmap
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of — married 1536 in Leuven, Brabantmap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 82 in Duisburg, Herzogtum Kleve, Niederländisch-Westfälischer Reichskreis, Heiliges Römisches Reichmap
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Biography

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Gerardus Mercator was a 16th-century pioneer of cartography. He is most renowned for a 1569 world map based on a new projection which represented courses of constant bearing as straight lines.

Gerardus Mercator was born in Rupelmonde (county of Flanders) on March 5, 1512 during a visit of his parents, Hubert Kremer and Emerentiana, to his father's uncle Gisbert Kremer. [1] [2] [3] His parents were residents of Gangelt, a village in the duchy of Gulik.[2][3] They returned there, but about 6 years later they settled permanently in Rupelmonde.[3]

Belgii inferioris descriptio emendata cum circumiacentium regionum confinijs, made by Mercator 1606[4]

Gerard married Barbara Schellekens in Leuven, probably on August 3, 1536. Six children were born there, sons Arnold, Bartholomaeus and Rumold, and daughters Emerentia, Dorothea, en Catherine. [2]

Miscellaneous

Many original maps, instruments and the two globes of Mercator are saved and exhibited in "Die Mercator-Schatzkammer" in the Kultur- und Stadthistorisches Museum Duisburg in Germany. [5]


Sources

  1. Biography by Walter Ghim, friend of Mercator (1595): Walter Ghim, Vita Mercatoris; preface to Gerardus Mercator, Atlas sive Cosmographicæ Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura (1595); translated by David Sullivan, Atlas or Cosmographic Meditations on The Fabric of the World and The Figure of the Fabrick’d.; accessed on 2019-12-31 by Filip Beunis on WayBack Machine (https://web.archive.org/web/20160310032427/http://mail.nysoclib.org/mercator_atlas/mcrats.pdf).
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Nationaal Biografisch Woordenboek
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek (NNBW)
  4. MapNetherlands-Wikimedia Map of the Netherlands; title: Belgii inferioris descriptio emendata cum circumiacentium regionum confinijs, 1606, source Betzmaps.com, Author Mercator, Gerard.
  5. Mercator-Schatzkammer Kultur- und Stadthistorisches Museum Duisburg, Deutschland.

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