Two maps of Hungary

Abstract

Wolfgang Lazius, one of the most important humanists and scholars in mid16th-century Vienna was born in the imperial capital in 1514. Five hundred years later, his name is internationally acknowledged by map historians for his influential cartographic works, in particular for the first printed regional atlas devoted to the Austrian provinces, Typi chorographici Provinciae Austriae, which was presumably etched by the author and published in Vienna in 1561. Of some two dozens of maps and topographic sketches that survived the ‘wear and tear’ of the past centuries, in this paper we would like to focus on two of Lazius’s most significant cartographic works, both representing the territory of the Kingdom of Hungary.