Blanckaert, Nicolaas (sold)
Nicolaas Blanckaert (1624 - 1703) was a Dutch philologist, historian, and professor. Although his immediate family is known, virtually nothing is known of his background and education. Is father, Stefan Blanckaert, was a schout (sheriff). While he is little known now, during his lifetime he was a prolific and respected author, editor and scholar. He published a broad array of translations from the Greek, including in 1683 Harpocration's Lexicon, the first published translation of that work (virtually the only lexicon of ancient Greek oratory to survive.) By 1662 he was professor of history and politics in Leiden, and was a historian for the Order of Zeeland. He would in 1669 become professor of Greek at the University of Franeker, a position he probably held until his death in that city.
Africa as known to the Roman Empire.
Africae Antiquae et quarundam Europae Asiaeque Adiacentium Regionum, accuratra delineatio ad Historiarum lucem edita Nicolao Blancaerdo Batavo.
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This is Nicolaas Blanckaert's historical map of Africa, drawn for the final volume of Jansson's Atlas Novus, which was dedicated to maps illustrating ancient and Biblical history. Blanckaert was a deeply respected historian and philologist, and his contribution to the atlas would have granted it great authority; this consisted of a trio of maps of Roman-era Europe, Asia and the present Africa map. (more details)