Heinrich Bünting

Heinrich Bünting (1545–1606) was a German theologian, cartographer, and writer, best known for his symbolic and allegorical maps rather than traditional geographic cartography. His most famous work, "Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae" (1581), was a biblical travel book that included some of the most iconic fantasy and religious maps of the early modern period. Bünting’s maps are now considered masterpieces of symbolic cartography, demonstrating how geography and religion were deeply intertwined in 16th-century Europe.