FISCHER, Joseph, German clergyman and cartographer: b. Quadrath, Rhein, Germany, 19 March 1858. He was educated at the gymna sium, Rhein, Westphalia, and the universities of Munster, Munich, Innsbruck and Vienna, andJesuit scholasticates in Holland, Austria and England. In l::1 he entered the Society of Jesus and was ordained to the priesthood in .891. Since 1895 he has been professor of geog and history at Stella Matutina College, Feld *rch. His scientific achievements cons prise the discovery of the maps of Waldsee• muiler of 1507 and 1516 and of Jodocus Hon dius in Wolfegg Castle, Wurttemberg in 1891. In 1903-04, and ag-ain in 1909-10, he visited Italy, France and England as member of the Austrian Institute of Historical Studies for the purpose of cartographical research. He has published Beziehungen Kaiser Rudolfs II zu Erzherzog Matthias bis zum Vertage von Lieben) (1608) ; (Der sogennante Schottwiener Vertrag vom Jahre 1600> (1897) ; (Der Linzer Tag vom Jahre 1605 in seiner Bedeutung ffir die Osterreichische Haus und Reichs geschichte> (1898); Entdeckungen der Normannen in America' (1902; Engl. trans.,
1903)i alteste Karte mit dem Nameu America A.D. 1507, und die Carta Marina aus dem Jahre 1516 des M. Waldsee mullet.) (German and English eds., 1903); of the World by Jodocus Hondius, 1611 ; 'Introduction of the Cosmographire ntroductio of Martin Waldseemiiller) (1907); (Der °deutsche Ptolemaus° urn 1490' (1910). He collaborated in Jahrbuch des historischen Vereins von Liechtenstein (•910) and contrib uted to the Innsbrucker theologische Zeit schrift, Innsbrucker Fernandeums Zeitschrift, 'Historical Records and Studies,' (Gottinger Gelehrte Anzeigen,> Catholic Encyclope dia,' and aus Maria-Laach.>