Quo Fuit places 3 dated presences for Abraham Ortelius across 3 places, from 1577.
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Abraham Ortelius (also Ortels, Orthellius or Wortels; 4 or 14 April 1527 to 28 June 1598) was a cartographer, geographer, and cosmographer from Antwerp in the Spanish Netherlands.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Abraham Ortelius was documented, and when
1577year
Englandattested“The inspired a six-volume work titled Civitates orbis terrarum, edited by Georg Braun and illustrated by Frans Hogenberg with the assistance of Ortelius himself, who visited England to see his friend John Dee in Mortlake in 1577, and Bra…”source: Wikipedia: Abraham Ortelius
1577year
Mortlakeattested“The inspired a six-volume work titled Civitates orbis terrarum, edited by Georg Braun and illustrated by Frans Hogenberg with the assistance of Ortelius himself, who visited England to see his friend John Dee in Mortlake in 1577, and Bra…”source: Wikipedia: Abraham Ortelius
1577year
Temple Churchattested“The inspired a six-volume work titled Civitates orbis terrarum, edited by Georg Braun and illustrated by Frans Hogenberg with the assistance of Ortelius himself, who visited England to see his friend John Dee in Mortlake in 1577, and Bra…”source: Wikipedia: Abraham Ortelius
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1521 to 1581period
Romementioned“Its immediate precursor and prototype was a collection of thirty-eight maps of European lands, and of Asia, Africa, Tartary, and Egypt, gathered together by the wealth and enterprise, and through the agents, of Ortelius's friend and patr…”source: Wikipedia: Abraham Ortelius
1547year
Antwerpmentioned“Beginning as a map-engraver, in 1547 he entered the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke as an illuminator of maps.”source: Wikipedia: Abraham Ortelius
1554year
Frankfurt Book Fairmentioned“He supplemented his income trading in books, prints, and maps, and his journeys included annual visits to the Frankfurt book and print fair, where he met Gerardus Mercator in 1554.”source: Wikipedia: Abraham Ortelius
1554year
Frankfurtmentioned“He supplemented his income trading in books, prints, and maps, and his journeys included annual visits to the Frankfurt book and print fair, where he met Gerardus Mercator in 1554.”source: Wikipedia: Abraham Ortelius
1560year
Triermentioned“In 1560, however, when travelling with Mercator to Trier, Lorraine, and Poitiers, he seems to have been attracted, largely by Mercator's influence, towards the career of a scientific geographer.”source: Wikipedia: Abraham Ortelius
20 May 1570exact date
Antwerpmentioned“On 20 May 1570, Gilles Coppens de Diest at Antwerp issued Ortelius's , the "first modern atlas" (of 53 maps).”source: Wikipedia: Abraham Ortelius
1573year
Englandmentioned“In England Ortelius's contacts included William Camden, Richard Hakluyt, Thomas Penny, Puritan controversialist William Charke, and Humphrey Llwyd, who would contribute the map of England and Wales to Ortelius's 1573 edition of the Theat…”source: Wikipedia: Abraham Ortelius
1578year
Antwerpmentioned“In 1578, he laid the basis of a critical treatment of ancient geography by his Synonymia geographica (issued by the Plantin Press at Antwerp and republished in expanded form as in 1587 and again expanded in 1596; in the last edition, Ort…”source: Wikipedia: Abraham Ortelius
1584year
Plantin Pressmentioned“He also published (at the Plantin press in 1584, and reprinted in 1630, 1661 in Hegenitius, Itin.”source: Wikipedia: Abraham Ortelius
1587year
Scotlandmentioned“Errors, of course, abound, both in general conceptions and in detail; thus South America is initially very faulty in outline, but corrected in the 1587 French edition, and in Scotland, the Grampians lie between the Forth and the Clyde; b…”source: Wikipedia: Abraham Ortelius
1596year
Antwerpmentioned“In 1596, he received a presentation from Antwerp, similar to that afterwards bestowed on Peter Paul Rubens.”source: Wikipedia: Abraham Ortelius
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