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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.