He was baptised on 27 August 1634 in Danzig, then a semi-autonomous city (granted by the Danzig law) within Polish Prussia (Prusy Królewskie) and a member of the Hanseatic League. His parents were English and Scottish, probably merchants or refugees.
He married in 1663, and in 1665 moved from London to Nuffield, Oxfordshire, to avoid the Great Plague. In 1669, Loggan was appointed "public sculptor" to the University of Oxford. Then he proceeded to draw and engrave all the Oxford colleges in bird's-eye views. His folio Oxonia illustrata was published in 1675.
In 1675, Loggan was naturalised as an English subject. That year he once again settled in London, living in Leicester Fields, where he let rooms to aristocratic patrons and acted as their agent in the acquisition of works of art.
From 1676 he was involved in preparing the new folio Cantabrigia illustrata, which was eventually published in 1690. In that year he was made engraver to Cambridge University.
Loggan was buried on 1 August 1692 in London.
Major works
Loggan's illustrated book on the University of Oxford, Oxonia Illustrata, was a product of several years of dedicated efforts in which he was assisted by Robert White (1645–1704).
His illustrated book on the University of Cambridge, Cantabrigia illustrata (sive, Omnium celeberrimæ istius universitatis collegiorum, aularum, bibliothecæ academicæ scholarum publicarum sacelli coll: regalis / nec non totius oppidi ichnographia.) contains a series of views of the university and its colleges, as well as of Eton College.
