Catholic, cartographerand geographer. Born Salling, Denmark, 1388. He was apparently an ecclesiastic. His maps of northwestern Europe and Greenland, accompanied by descriptions of those regions, exercised a great influence on the development of cartography, his works being utilized by the leading map-makers for four centuries.
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