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EITZINGER,Michel
By Pierre Joppen
Sep 17, 2005, 16:53

Michael Eitzinger  was a cartographer and historian in the service of the Emperors Ferdinand II and Maximilian II, living for many years in the Netherlands. He is best known for his history of the revolt of the Netherlands entitled De Leone Belgico (Cologne, 1583).
He is also the inventor of the famous map of the Seventeen Provinces in the shape of a lion.

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