Wapowski, Bernhard

His surname is from his birth village’s name, and he was educated in Cracow. In 1526 Wapowski was serving as secretary to the King of Poland (later becoming Royal Cartographer) when Nicolaus Copernicus assisted him in mapping the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Worked with Marco Beneventanus in Rome revising Nicolas Cusanus‘s 1507 “Tabula moderna Polonia, Ungarie, Boemie, Germanie, Russie, Lithuanie”, prepared for a 1507–1508 Rome edition of Ptolemy‘s
“Geographia”. Also created a “Map of Poland” in 1525, published in Cracow, that was used by both Mercator and Munster. Died Cracow.