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Last Name Cysat

Given Name Renward

alt. Names R. C. ;

Marriage

Children mathematician and astronomer Johann Baptist Cysat (c. 1587-1657)

Year born 1545 in Lucerne

Year died 1614

Place of death Lucerne

Father's occupation

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Education

Country of Activity Switzerland

Worked for map "Japan" (Fribourg 1586) ; creator of the first map of the canton of Lucerne ;

Patronage Pope Gregory XIII (1502-1585) ;

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Techniques cartographical drawing and woodcutting

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Archival sources https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renward_Cysat

Published sources ADB 4 1876: 669-70 ; NDB 3 1957: 455-6 ; Walter 1994: plate 15 ; Renward Brandstetter: Renward Cysat, 1545-1614. Der Begründer der schweizerischen Volkskunde (1909) ;

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