3-509: Henneberger can refer to : See also: Hennenberger , Hennenberg , Henneberg (disambiguation) Hennenberger Caspar Hennenberger (also Kaspar, Henneberger, Hennenberg, or Henneberg) (1529 – 29 February 1600) was a German Lutheran pastor , historian and cartographer. Hennenberger was born in a Franconian place given as Erlich ( Erlichhausen , or Ehrlichen in Thüringen ) and started to study Lutheran divinity at
6-510: The University of Königsberg in 1550. In 1554 he began to work at the congregation of Georgenau and in Domnau. Probably in 1561 he moved to Mühlhausen , where he worked as a Lutheran Pastor for the next 29 years. With the patronage of Duke Albert of Prussia , and support by Prussian mathematicians like Nicolaus Neodomus , Hennenberger published the first detailed map of Prussia in 1576,
9-548: The book " Kurze und wahrhaftige Beschreibung des Landes zu Preussen " (short and truthful description of the land Prussia) in 1584 and " Erklärung der preußischen größeren Landtafeln oder Mappen " (explanation of the larger Prussian maps) in 1594. In 1590 Hennenberger became the Pastor of the Large Hospital at Königsberg - Löbenicht , where he died in 1600. He was buried in the hospital's Church. This article about
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