יעקב אוספיץ

Jacob Auspitz (early 19th cent.), Hebrew cartographer. He lived in Budapest, Hungary (then part of the Austrian Empire) around the beginning of the 19th century. In 1818 he published "Beer Haluhoth" (Explanation of the Tables; Budapest, 1817), containing five maps on biblical geography, copied from Latin sources, with annotations; 1. The division of humanity after the flood; 2. The wanderings of the Jews in the wilderness; 3. The stations of the Jews in their wanderings; 4. The division of Palestine among the tribes; 5. Ezekiel's plan for a new division of Palestine.