(b Nijmegen, 1509 or 1517; d Antwerp, 1591). Engraver, mapmaker and publisher. A native of the northern Netherlands, he was in Antwerp by 1547 at the latest, when he was admitted to the Guild of St Luke as a master. Two years later he became a citizen of Antwerp; he obtained a licence to publish prints in 1551. His first dated print is from 1560. He drew and published various series of maps, some engraved by himself and some by Jan and Lucas van Doetechum. He also republished existing maps, for example a revised reprint of the Mappa mundi by Giacomo Castaldi (1560), a Map of Portugal (1563), the Theatrum orbis terrarum by Abraham Ortelius (1564) and a Map of Italy after Castaldi (1568). In 1573 Gerard de Jode republished several of his maps in an atlas entitled Speculum orbis terrarum, for which he obtained imperial and royal licences in 1575 and 1577 respectively. This was later reissued several times, including by his son (2) Cornelis de Jode in 1593. One of the earliest northern print publishers, Gerard de Jode was regarded, after Ortelius, as the second most important publisher of maps and atlases (see ATLAS). Besides his activity as a cartographer, he also engraved and published a few historical subjects, mostly after compositions by others, including Marten de Vos, Crispin van den Broeck, Hendrick Goltzius, Maarten van Heemskerck, Michelangelo and Titian.

Part of the Jode, de family

• Jode, Gerard de
  • Bruegel
  • Bruegel: (3) Jan Breughel I, §1: Life
  • Doetechum, van
  • Prints, §IV, 2: Publishers
  • collaboration
    • Gheeraerts: (1) Marcus Gheeraerts (i)
    • Vredeman de Vries, Hans, §2(i): Designs
  • printmakers
    • Perret, Pedro
    • Sadeler: (1) Jan Sadeler I
    • Vos, Marten de
    • Wierix: (1) Jan Wierix
  • works
    • Atlas
    • Emblem book, §2: History
    • Prints, §II, 1(i): Subject-matter, before c 1700: Devotional, religious and moralizing
    • Snellinck, Jan, I
    • Vos, Marten de, §2(ii): Drawings