Gerardus Mercator

**Gerardus Mercator**
	Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer (1512–1594) Gravat de 1682 per N. de Larmessin.
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Name in native language	Gerhard Kremer;
Date of birth	5 March 1512; Rupelmonde (Holy Roman Empire, County of Flanders); Gerard De Kremer
Date of death	2 December 1594; Duisburg (United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, Holy Roman Empire)
Place of burial	Church of Our Saviour (51°26′9.02″N 6°45′40.03″E);
Country of citizenship	Habsburg Netherlands;
Educated at	Old University of Leuven (1530–1532); Brethren of the Common Life (1527–1530);
Doctoral advisor	Gemma Frisius;
Doctoral student	John Dee;
Occupation	mathematician; philosopher; theologian; cartographer; inventor; cosmographer; university teacher; instrument maker; writer; globe maker; copper engraver; draughtsman; publisher (1537–1594); geographer;
Employer	Old University of Leuven (1534–1552);
Position held	cosmographer (1564–);
Field of work	geography; cartography; mathematics; theology; philosophy;
Family	Mercator family;
Child	Bartholomeus Mercator; Rumold Mercator; Arnold Mercator;
Spouse	Barbara Schellekens (1536–1585); Gertrude Vierlings (1589–1594);
Work location	Leuven (–1552); Duisburg (1552–);
Notable work	Mercator projection; Mercator 1569 world map; Mercator map of Palestine; Angliae, Scotiae & Hiberniae nova descriptio; Mercator Europe map; Literarum latinarum, quas italicas, cursoriasque vocant, scribendarum ratio; Chronologia; Tabulae Geographicae; Mercator globe of the Earth (1541);
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Deutsch: Gerhard Mercator (eigentlich Gerard De Kremer, latinisiert: Gerardus Mercator) (* 5. März 1512 in Rupelmonde, Flandern; † 2. Dezember 1594 in Duisburg) war ein Mathematiker und Kartograf, der schon zu Lebzeiten als der Ptolemäus seiner Zeit angesehen wurde.

English: Gerardus Mercator (March 5, 1512 – December 2, 1594) was a Flemish cartographer of German descent, remembered for the Mercator projection named after him.

Esperanto: Gerardus MERCATOR estis german-devena flandra matematikisto kaj kartografo.

Français : Mercator Gerardus est un mathématicien et géographe flamand (Rupelmonde, 1512 - 1594). Il est principalement connu pour la projection de Mercator, nommé ainsi en son nom.

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Portrait gallery

Portrait, engraving by Frans Hogenberg
Statue for Mercator at Duisburg in 1925
Fountain representing Gerardus Mercator at Duisburg, Germany
Sand sculpture

Map gallery

Ptolemaeus view of Northern Europe by Mercator
frontispiece of "Atlas"
Europe
Europe 1589
Europe 1595
Northpole (1595)
Svecia et Norvegia cum confinys (Map of Sweden and Norway, 1595)
Rheinpfalz, 189v
Marchia Anconitana cum Spoletano Ducatu, 1589 - Gerard Kremer (Mercatore) (mm 350x450, Cartoteca storica delle Marche)
The Netherlands 1606
Dutch provence: Zelandia 1613
Saxony 1627
map of Barbaria (Northern Africa) 1630
"Iaponia", map of Japan

Other pictures

House of Gerardus Mercator at Duisburg 1566, engraving by Johannes Corputius
Ekzemplo.
modern impersonation