Matthias Quad
Matthias Quad was an engraver and cartographer from Cologne. He was the first European mapmaker to use dotted lines to indicate international borders.
Life
Matthias Quad was born and learnt engraving in the Netherlands. An engraver in wood and stone, Quad collaborated with the Cologne publisher Johann Bussemacher to publish a quarto atlas of Europe in 1592. This was expanded into a Geographisches Handtbuch, with more text than maps, and then into a proper atlas, Fasciculus Geographicus.
Works
Europea totius orbis terrarum praestantissimae..., 1592 Globi terrestris compendium, 1598 Enchiridion Cosmographicum, 1599 Geographisches Handtbuch, 1599/1600 Deliciae Germaniae sive totius Germaniae itinerarium, 1600 Itinerarium Universae Germaniae, 1602 Deliciae Hispaniae et index viatorius indicans itinera, 1604 Fasciculus Geographicus, 1608