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Guðbrandur Þorláksson or
Gudbrandur Thorlaksson (
1541 –
July 20,
1627) was a mathematician, cartographer and
bishop in
Hólar,
Iceland. He studied at the cathedral school at Hólar and the
University of Copenhagen, and was successively rector of the school at
Skálholt, minister at
Breiðabólstaður and bishop of Hólar until his death on
July 20,
1627.
He edited and published at least 80 books while he was bishop, including the
Bible in
Icelandic and the
Icelandic Lawbook or
legal code. He is also noted for having drawn the first good map of Iceland, in
1590.
He had at least one child, a daughter named Steinunn, born in 1571 to Guðrún Gísladóttir.
He is pictured on the now obsolete Icelandic 50
króna banknote.
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