# Abraham Ortelius

> He bound the known world between covers — the first modern atlas, published in 1570, that turned geography from loose-leaf guesswork into a bound, sellable fact. Centuries before plate tectonics, he also proposed the continents had once been joined.

*Flemish cartographer, geographer and cosmographer (1527–1598)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Born:** 1527-04-14
- **Died:** 1598-06-28
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Abraham Ortelius was born in Antwerp on 4 or 14 April 1527, in what was then the Spanish Netherlands. Trained as a cartographer and cosmographer, he became a central figure in the Netherlandish school of cartography alongside Gemma Frisius and Gerardus Mercator. In 1570 he published the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas — a collection that marked the official start of the Golden Age of Netherlandish cartography and made him an important geographer during Spain's age of discovery. Beyond compiling maps, he advanced a radical idea: that the continents had once been connected and had since drifted apart. He died in Antwerp on 28 June 1598.

## Fame
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## Topics
#Business Professionals, #Scientist, #History, #Early Modern Era

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