PETER SCHENK, Postarum seu veredariorum stationes per Germaniam et provincias adiacentes, ca 1710
The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland and Austria on a map. A large part of Europe and the Germanic provinces is shown on this map.
Petrus Schenck (Elberfeld, Wuppertal 26 December 1660 - Leipzig, Saxony 1711) was a German engraver and mapmaker. During the first half of the 18th century, Schenck was one of the most important figures in Saxon cartography.The mapmaker entered the service of the Amsterdam engraver and map publisher Gerard Valck. Schenck lived in the Jordaan on Lauriergracht in amsterdam. The couple had six children, all of whom were baptized in the Westerkerk.
Around 1700, he settled in Leipzig as a globetrotter, mapmaker and art dealer.
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