In the history of exploration, Pavao Ritter Vitezović is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Pavao Ritter Vitezović as Croatian writer, historian, linguist, cartographer and publisher (1652-1713).
Pavao Ritter Vitezović was born at Senj in 1652.
Seventeenth-century voyaging was commercial and Dutch-led, mapping coastlines for companies rather than kings.
He is recorded as writer, heraldist and cartographer.
Distance was the hardest problem of the pre-modern world, and it was solved by people willing to risk it.
Pavao Ritter Vitezović died in 1713, aged 61. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Recorded as writer, heraldist and cartographer
