Renward Cysat (Cusatus; 1545–1614) was an apothecary, advocate, cartographer and city councillor of Lucerne. He is the father of mathematician and astronomer Johann Baptist Cysat.
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Cysat published works about the history and folklore of Lucerne, as well as a number of theatrical plays, and a book about (then-recently discovered) Japan. He was responsible for the first map of the canton of Lucerne, published in 1613.[1] Cysat was given the honorary title of count palatine by pope Gregory XIII in 1576.
References
edit- ^ Heinz Horat und Thomas Klöti, Die Luzernerkarte von Hans Heinrich Wägmann und Renward Cysat, 1597-1613. In: Der Geschichsfreund 139 (1986), 47-100. Die älteste Karte des Kantons Luzern von Hans Heinrich Wägmann und Renward Cysat, 1597-1613: die Originalzeichnung und die Nachbildungen. In: Cartographica Helvetica, 1990, Heft 2, 20-26.
- Anton Dörrer (1957), "Cysat, Renward", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 3, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 455–456; (full text online).
- Theodor von Liebenau (1876), "Cysat, Renward (Polyhistor)", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 4, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 669–670
- Fritz Glauser: Cysat, Renward in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
- Renward Brandstetter, Renward Cysat, 1545-1614: der Begründer der schweizerischen Volkskunde (1909).
- E. Hoffmann-Krayer, "Cysatiana. Volkskundliches aus dem Kanton Luzern um die Wende des 16. Jahrhunderts", Schweizerisches Archiv für Volkskunde = Archives suisses des traditions populaires 14 (1910), 198–245.