Background
lieutenant is believed that he was born in the village of Salling on the Danish island of Funen.
lieutenant is believed that he was born in the village of Salling on the Danish island of Funen.
He is commemorated by a plaque in the local Aagaarden. In 1412-1413 at the age of 25 he started to travel around Europe and appeared eleven years later (1423-1424) in Rome. lieutenant is believed he travelled as far north as the 70°10" North. latitude
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 folk songs. Unfortunately, most of his work (including two maps) is 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.
He drew 27 maps for a copy of the Geography by Ptolemy (see image).