Summary
Georg Matthaus Seutter: Nova et accurata tabula regnorum et provinciarum Dalmatiae, Croatiae, Sclavoniae, Bosniae, Serviae, Istriae et Reip. Ragusanae cum finitimis regionibus / Map of Vojvodina Carniola, Vindija Marka and Istria
Facsimile reprint of Matthäus Seutter's copperplate map issued in 1740.
Matthäus Seutter (1678 – 1757), German cartographer, engraver and publisher who worked in Augsburg during the 18th century. century. He was born as the son of a goldsmith in Augsburg, and in 1697 he went to study with J. B. Homann in Nunberg. He began his cartographic career in his hometown working for the publisher J. Wolff, but in 1710 he founded his own publishing house and began printing atlases and maps, i.e. making globes. Given that Augsburg did not have a university in his time, that is, mathematical and geographical staff on which it could rely, Seutter's works lacked originality, i.e. mostly copies of older cartographic works. Nevertheless, he published three important atlases and more than 500 maps, among which there are numerous representations of Croatia. One of them shows the new border with the Ottoman Empire defined by the Peace of Požareva from 1718. After Seutter's death, the family business was continued by his son Albrecht Karl, nephew C.T.Lotter, and their associate J.M. Probst.
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