Friedrich Gottlieb Canzler was born on December 25, 1764, and died on January 27, 1811. He was an academic who worked as a professor at Göttingen, Germany. Little is known about his family and educational background.
Canzler is primarily recognised in the history of cartography for his collaboration with the prominent German publishing house of the Homann Heirs (Homannschen Erben) in Nuremberg, as well as the publisher Christoph Fembo. For his maps, he interpreted and adapted information from contemporary geographical discoveries. One of his key works is his map of the western Pacific and Australasia, first issued around 1795 under the title Karte vom Fünften Erdtheil. On this map, he integrated recent discoveries from James Cook’s voyages and adopted the alternative name “Ulimaroa” for Australia – a short-lived nomenclature derived from Swedish geographer and cartographer Daniel Djurberg’s misinterpretation of a Māori word from Cook's journals. He is also noted for producing regional maps of North Africa, including his 1790s Karte von Fes und Marócos.
Canzler will be remembered as a scholarly late-18th-century German academic cartographer who helped disseminate expanding Pacific and global geographical discoveries through his collaborative publications with the Homann Heirs.
Nuremberg: Homann Heirs, 1795 (dated)
57.2 x 45.0 cm / 22.5 x 17.7 in
Description This map of the western Pacific Ocean extends from East / Southeast Asia and Australia to Hawaii (Sandwich Inseln) and the Marquesas Islands (Mendozas od. Marquesas Inseln), and from the Kuril Islands to New Zealand.....