3. Braun & Hogenberg 1618 The German partnership of Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg copied Hooker at a similar scale thus laying the path for the larger series of Hooker-based plans. Georg Braun (1541-1622) was born in Cologne. Frans (or Francis) Hogenberg (c.1536-1588), and his brother, Remigius (Remy, 1536-1587) were also of German descent but had fled from the Dutch town of Mechelen to England during a period of religious unrest. Frans returned to the Netherlands but Remigius remained in England. Braun and Hogenberg, together with engravers such as Georg Hoefnagel , Daniel Freese and Heinrich Rantzau compiled a city atlas. Their Civitates Orbis Terrarum was intended as a compa...