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Last Name Columbus

Given Name Bartholomew

alt. Names B. C. ; Bertomê Corombo / Bartolomé Colón / Bartolomeo Colombo ;

Marriage

Children Maria (1508-15xx) (born out of wedlock)

Year born 1437 c. / 1461 in Genoa

Year died 1514 / 1515

Place of death Santo Domingo (nowadays Dominican Republic)

Father's occupation wool Weaver Domenico Colombo (1418-1498 / 1500) from Genoa

Relatives explorer, navigator, and colonizer Christopher Columbus (c. 1451-1506) ; Susanna Fontanarossa (1435-1489) (mother) ;

Education

Country of Activity Italy

Worked for Map of the West Indies (1506) ; map of the world (c. 1490) ;

Patronage Kings of Castile and Aragón ;

Collaborators Alessandro Zorzi (14xx- after 1506) for a set of 3 maps of the West Indies (1506) ; the Columbus family, especially with his brothers Christopher (1xxx-1xxx) and Diego (14xx-1509) ;

Techniques cartographical drawing and map making ;

Sample(s) http://cartographic-images.net/Cartographic_Images/304_Sketch_maps.html ;

Archival sources http://www.christopher-columbus.eu/columbus-genealogy.htm ;

Published sources Giovanni Nuti: COLOMBO, Bartolome, in: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - vol. 27 (1982) ; https://thebiography.us/en/colon-bartolome ;

other In the 1470s Bartholomew was a mapmaker in Lisbon, Portugal. Further Place of Activiy: Espagne, France, England, and several regions in South America, among them what is nowadays known as Dominican Republic. Further relatives: Giacomo / Diego Columbus (14xx-1509) (brother) and Diego Columbus (1474-1526) (nephew).

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