Johann Baptista Homann

1664-1724

German (Nürnberg, Germany)

Johann Baptist Homann founded his business 1702 in Nuremberg, Germany. After a long period of Dutch domination in map publishing, the Homann publishing house became the most important map and atlas producer in Germany. He was a member of the Academy of Science in Berlin just after he published his first atlas in 1707, and in 1715 he was appointed Imperial Geographer by Emperor Charles VI. In 1716 Homann published his masterpiece Grosser Atlas ueber die ganze Welt (Grand Atlas of all the World). Numerous maps were drawn up in cooperation with the engraver Christoph Wiegel the Elder.

After his death 1724 in Nuremberg, the company was continued by his son Johann Christoph 1703-1730). The publishing firm was bequeathed to his heirs after his death in 1730 and was traded under the name Homann Heirs until the next century.

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Homann, Johann Baptista 1664-1724
Netherlands, Dutch East Indies and Dutch West Indies
ca. 1707- ca. 1745
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Homann, Johann Baptista 1664-1724
Danish Islands in the Baltic Sea
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