Augustin Hirschvogel

Augustin Hirschvogel, born in Nuremberg in 1503 and dead in February 1553, was a German artist, mathematician and cartographer known above all for his etchings, among them thirty-five small landscapes made between 1545 and 1549 that gave him a place in the Danube School. Trained in glass painting by his father, the city's official stained glass painter, he left for Laibach in 1536 and there produced his earliest maps, of Turkish borders in 1539 and of Austria in 1542 for Ferdinand I. In Vienna from 1544 the city employed him on bastion designs and etched views, including the first circular plan of the city produced by triangulation, a surveying system he developed, and the first views of Vienna drawn to scale.