Map collections, map colouring and map circulation in Hamburg in the eighteenth century and the role of Johann Hübner's "Museum Geographicum":

Hamburg was in the eighteenth century a central place for colouring and trading maps in Northern Germany. Johann Hübner (1668–1731) was since 1701 director of the Hamburg Latin school, where he established a "Museum Geographicum" – a place where maps were collected, coloured and merchandiz...

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1. Verfasser: Linde, Benjamin van der 1987- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch Artikel
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2024
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Zusammenfassung:Hamburg was in the eighteenth century a central place for colouring and trading maps in Northern Germany. Johann Hübner (1668–1731) was since 1701 director of the Hamburg Latin school, where he established a "Museum Geographicum" – a place where maps were collected, coloured and merchandized. Hübner bought black-and-white copies of maps and let them colour in a special way, which he classified as methodical. He wanted maps to be used in educational context as pupils should be able to learn geography by working with coloured maps. For this purpose Hübner was cooperating with the Homann firm in Nuremberg. Some of the Hübner-maps can found in archives and libraries today like the Klefeker-Collection in Library of the Chamber of Commerce in Hamburg (now Stiftung Hanseatisches Wirtschaftsarchiv) or the Ebeling-Collection at the Harvard library. In my paper I will explain Hübner’s map colouring style with regard to the material and intellectual context of his colourings by examining maps, correspondences and different archival sources from Hamburg Archives.
Beschreibung:Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:978-90-04-46736-1
DOI:10.1163/9789004467361_006

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