Claudius Clavus (Suartho) also known as Nicholas Niger, (Danish: Claudius Claussøn Swart), (September 14, 1388-?), was a Danish geographer sometimes considered to be the first Nordic cartographer. September 14 is the 257th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (258th in leap years). ... Events Beginning of prosecution of Lollards in England The Battle of Otterburn between England and Scotland A Chinese army under Xu Da sacks Karakorum Births September 14 - Claudius Claussön Swart, Danish geographer September 29 - Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, second son of Henry IV of England (d. ... A geographer is a crazy psycho whose area of study is geocrap, the pseudoscientific study of Earths physical environment and human habitat and the study of boring students to death. ... Overview map of the region. ... Cartography is the study of map making and cartographers are map makers. ...

It is believed that he was born in the village of Salling on the Danish island of Funen. He is remembered by a plaque in the local Aagaarden. Funen (Danish: Fyn) is the third largest island of Denmark, it has a population of 445,000 people. ...

When he was 25 years old, that is in 1412-13, he started to travel around Europe and appeared ten years later (1423-24) in Rome. It is believed he travelled as far up as the 70°10' N. lat. In Rome he began a friendship with the cardinal Giordano Orsini and the pope's secretary Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, who were among those working to update the old Roman cartography. Claudius contributed to a more realistic description of Nordic countries, in particular Iceland and Greenland, and was probably the first cartographer to put Greenland on a map. He is also known for having named Greenlandic places by using lyrics from old folks songs. Nickname: The Eternal City Location of the city of Rome (yellow) within the Province of Rome (red) and region of Lazio (grey) Coordinates: Region Lazio Province Province of Rome Founded 8th century BC Mayor Walter Veltroni Area    - City 1,285 km²  (496. ... Latitude, usually denoted symbolically by the Greek letter φ, gives the location of a place on Earth north or south of the Equator. ... Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini (February 11, 1380 - October 30, 1459), was one of the most important Italian Renaissance humanists. ...

Unfortunately, most of his work (including two maps) are lost, but a copy has been preserved through the German cartographers Donnus Nicholas Germanus and Henricus Martellus Germanus, and in the nineteenth century more texts were rediscovered in the imperial library at Vienna. Inhabitants according to official census figures: 1800 to 2005 Vienna in 1858 UN complex in Vienna, with the non-affiliated Austria Center Vienna in front - picture taken from Danube Tower in nearby Danube Park. ...

References

• Dansk Biografisk Leksikon (Danish)
• Catholic Encyclopedia