Criginger, Johann
Johann Criginger (1521 - December 27, 1571) was a German Lutheran pastor, writer and cartographer. He was a student at the University of Wittenburg, transferring later to the University of Leipzig and in 1541 to the University of Tübingen. He became a teacher in Crimmitschau, but then returned to Wittenberg, whence he graduated in 1544. 1547 found him as court preacher of Count Lorenz Schlick in Žlutice. By 1548 he was a clergyman in Marienberg, where he became archdeacon in 1551. In 1559 he became a pastor in the Church of the Virgin Mary, holding that position until his death. Not only a churchman, Criginger was also a cartographer. He is most remembered for his 1568 Bohemiae regni nova chorographica Descriptio, which provided the source for Abraham Ortelius' Regni Bohemia Descriptio. (Criginger's map now exists only in two known copies.
From the First Modern Atlas.
Regni Bohemiae Descriptio.
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This is Ortelius' 1570 map of Bohemia, in a beautiful, original-color example from the 1587 French edition of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas. It is derived from the unobtainable, Leipzig-published, 1568 Johann Criginger (1521 - 1571) map, which was to date the best map of Bohemia available. Like the Criginger, Ortelius' map is oriented to the north, showing the Kingdom of Bohemia surrounded by pictorially-represented forests and forbidding mountains. Cities and towns are pictorially shown to represent their respective sizes. Ortelius' map is embellished with two handsome, strapwork cartouches; the title cartouche is surmounted with the Bohemian coat-of-arms. (more details)