Cartographer - Definition and Overview

Cartography is the study of map making and cartographers are map makers.

Before 1400

• Dicaearchus (Greece, circa 350 B.C. - circa 285 B.C.), philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician, author
• Hipparchus, (Greece, 190 B.C. - 120 B.C.), astronomer, cartographer, geographer
• Isidore of Seville (Spain, 560 - 636)
• Ptolemy, (Ptolemaic Egypt, Greece, circa 85 - circa 165), astronomer, cartographer, geographer

15th Century

• Philipp Apian (1495 - 1552)
• Martin Behaim (1436 - 1507)
• Erhard Etzlaub (1460 - 1532)
• Sebastian Münster (Germany, 1488 - 1552)
• Piri Reis (1465 - 1554/55)
• Hartmann Schedel (Germany, 1440 - 1514)
• Amerigo Vespucci (1454 - 1512)
• Martin Waldseemüller (Germany, circa 1470 - circa 1521/1522)
• Fra Mauro (Venice, circa 1459)

16th Century

• Johan Blaeu (1599 - 1673)
• Willem Blaeu (1571 - 1638)
• Martin Heilwig (Germany, 1516 - 1574)
• Henricus Hondius (1597 - 1651)
• Jodocus Hondius, (1563 - 1612)
• Jan Janssonius (Norway ?, 1588 - 1664)
• Gerard de Jode (1509 - 1591)
• Gerardus Mercator (Belgium, Netherlands, 1512 - 1594)
• A. Matthäus Merian (Switzerland, 1593 - 1650)
• Abraham Ortelius, (Belgium, 1527 - 1598), Belgian cartographer
• John Speed (England, 1542 - 1629)

17th Century

• Vincenzo Coronelli (1650 - 1718)
• Guillaume Delisle, (1675 - 1726), cartographer
• Johann Homann, (Germany, 1664 - 1724), geographer
• Iohannes van Kleulen (also spelt Johannes), cartographer, founder of Firm of Van Kleulen
• Matthäus Merian (Switzerland, 1621 - 1687)
• Peter Schenk (1660 - 1718/19)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Karl von Schmettau (died 1743)
• Matthias Seutter (1678 - 1757)

18th Century

• Johann Friedrich Endersch (Germany, fl. 1755)
• Thomas Jefferys (c. 1710 - 1771) Geographer of King George III of the United Kingdom

19th Century

• George Bradshaw (1801 - 1853)
• Carl Diercke (1842 - 1913)
• Paul Diercke (1874 - 1937)
• Max Eckert-Greifendorff (1868 - 1938)
• Hermann Haack (1872 - 1966)
• Eduard Imhof (1895 - 1986)
• Peter Kozler (Slovenia, 1824 - 1879), lawyer, geographer, politician, manufacturer.
• Thomas Moule (England, 1784 - 1851)
• Nicolas Auguste Tissot (France)
• Philippe Vandermaelen (Belgium, 1795 - 1869)

20th Century

• Erik Arnberger (1917 - 1987)
• Jacques Bertin
• Roger Brunet
• Günther Hake (1922 - 2000)
• George F. Jenks (1916 - 1996)
• Edgar Lehmann (1905 - 1990)
• Rudi Ogrissek (1926 - 1999)
• Erwin Raisz (1893 - 1968)
• Arthur H. Robinson (1915 - 2004)
• John C. Sherman (1916 - 1996)
• Waldo R. Tobler

Cartography Organisations

• British Cartographic Society (United Kingdom) link: http://www.cartography.org.uk/
• NACIS (North American Cartographic Information Society) (United States) link: http://www.nacis.org/
• Ordnance Survey (United Kingdom)