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The Memorial Art Gallery\u2019s \u201cHidden Passions: Inspiring Conversations about Hyphenated Lives<\/a><\/strong>\u201d is in its third season of celebrating the creative lives and private hobbies of Rochesterians.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cHidden Passions puts our friends and neighbors center-stage so that we can marvel at the extraordinary creative adventures happening all around us … and perhaps find inspiration for our own,\u201d says Jonathan Binstock, the Mary W. and Donald R. Clark Director of the Memorial Art Gallery.<\/em><\/p>\n

Here, we highlight one member of the University community who is being featured this season.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Seymour Schwartz is one of two featured speakers at the Memorial Art Gallery\u2019s Hidden Passions event<\/a><\/strong> at 7 p.m. Thursday, January 19. He’ll be joined by Rosemary Janofsky, midwife\/innkeeper.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cSerendipitous\u201d is how Seymour Schwartz \u201957M (Res.), Distinguished Alumni Professor of Surgery, describes the evolution of his interest in historic maps.<\/p>\n

As an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, during World War II, he took a typical pre-med curriculum. With the exception of introductory English and a three-credit course on Shakespeare, every class was science, he says. He continued his studies at New York University School of Medicine.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had no particular interest in history until I saw some maps,\u201d recalls Schwartz, sitting beside a reproduction of the first known map to include the Americas, which hangs in his office at the School of Medicine and Dentistry. \u201cMaps provide a palatable way of learning history.\u201d<\/p>\n

He acquired the first map in his collection\u2014a 1795 map of the state of New York\u2014in 1963. Schwartz\u2019s collection has since grown to become one of the most acclaimed collections of rare maps in North America. His holdings focus on the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries\u2014documenting Europe\u2019s earliest contact with and understanding of the New World.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy surgical personality speaks to developing a specialty,\u201d Schwartz says about choosing a region and finite time period on which to focus.<\/p>\n

As his interest in cartographic history grew, he discovered that nobody had pursued extensive scholarship on the mapping of America. So he took on that role. Schwartz has authored seven books on cartography, including the definitive reference work, coauthored with Ralph Ehrenberg, The Mapping of America<\/em> (Abrams, 1980). He has served on the boards of the National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution and the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress.<\/p>\n

Schwartz, who has donated parts of his collection over the years, says he doesn\u2019t think a true collector should sell an item for profit.<\/p>\n

In 2008, he bequeathed more than 200 of his rare maps to the University of Virginia. In 2010, he donated some of the earliest maps and drawings of Western New York to River Campus Libraries\u2019 Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation. The Schwartz collection at Rochester includes the first map printed in the colony of New York, dated 1733, as well as the earliest known drawing of the region, a circa 1768 etching of the Upper Falls of the Genesee River.<\/p>\n

For Schwartz, maps not only offer a means of learning history; they also have aesthetic value. \u201cMaps should be considered works of art,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Since joining the Rochester faculty in 1957, Schwartz has written numerous medical texts, including the authoritative textbook, Principles of Surgery<\/em>; authored more than 300 scientific papers; and edited several of the most respected journals on surgery.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s received many accolades during his long career. Many have recognized his accomplishments as a surgeon; others have honored his contributions to cartography.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the books I\u2019ve written on cartography, the audience generally doesn\u2019t know that I\u2019m a surgeon,\u201d he says. \u201cIn contradistinction, the readers of [Principles of Surgery<\/em>] don\u2019t have any idea about my interest in cartography.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two of his honorary degrees\u2014one from the University of Madrid and one from the University of Wisconsin\u2014were awarded for his contributions to both surgery and to cartography.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that pleases me,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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