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. Peter's in Salzburg in 1434. He left the monastery in 1442. Little more is known about him except that in 1448/9[1] he created his map in Konstanz.
The map
editThe 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.
Ownership
editIn 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).
References
edit- ^ he made the world-map for which he is remembered. It has elements in common with accounts of other maps no longer extant and with the better known worldmap of the Fra Mauro (1457) the most elaborate example of medieval Latin cartography remaining. "Geography and the Church - Subject: Geography". Archived from the original on October 8, 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-18.
Further reading
edit- Gallez, Paul (1981). "Walsperger and His Knowledge of the Patagonian Giants, 1448". Imago Mundi. 33: 91–93. doi:10.1080/03085698108592520. ISSN 0308-5694. JSTOR 1150793.
- Karl-Heinz Meine: Zur Weltkarte des Andreas Walsperger, Konstanz 1448. In: Wolfgang Scharfe u.a. (Hrsg.): Kartenhistorisches Colloquium Bayreuth '82. Vorträge und Berichte. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin, 1983, ISBN 3-496-00692-7
External links
edit- http://www.bad-radkersburg-online.at/bad-radkersburg/pers3.htm Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine zur Person des Andreas Walsberger
