B. Smolenskoye, Vereysky district [now Moscow region], 1716-18; d. St Petersburg, 25 Feb 1770.
Russian draughtsman and engraver. He was the son of a priest, and from 1729 he studied at the St Petersburg Naval Academy. In August 1731 he was transferred to the instrument-making department of the Academy of Sciences, where he helped to make land-surveying instruments, including theodolites (a training that was of value when he later came to sketch views of St Petersburg); he also learnt how to carve moulds for dies under Georg Unfertsagt (1701-67); and he studied drawing under the two members of the Academy staff, Ottmar Elliger II and Elias Grimmel (1703-58). In June 1743 Makhayev was made director of the cartographic and die-carving section of the Academy, and he was employed there for the rest of his life. Together with his pupils he helped to produce the Atlas rossiyskoy imperii ('Atlas of the Russian Empire'; 1740s); in addition, he provided inscriptions for diplomas for honorary members of the Academy, for porcelain snuff-boxes and for a large silver shrine at the tomb of Aleksandr Nevsky (early 175...
Bagrow.
31 oktober 1840 - 8 september 1923.
Edvard Erdmann, född 31 oktober 1840 i Stockholm, död 8 september 1923 i Saltsjö-Duvnäs, var en svensk geolog, son till Axel Erdmann och far till Axel Erdmann.
Erdman genomgick Teknologiska institutet, antogs 1861 såsom biträdande geolog vid Sveriges geologiska undersökning (SGU), var 1870-1910 geolog vid nämnda verk och var från 1871 tillika amanuens vid det därmed förenade, nybildade geologiska museet. Han var en av stiftarna av Geologiska Föreningen i Stockholm, i vilken han 1873-76 var sekreterare och 1882, 1888 och 1897 ordförande. År 1875 företog han, med statsbidrag, en vetenskaplig resa till Tyskland, Schweiz och England.
Såsom tjänsteman vid SGU utarbetade han de geologiska kartbladen Lindsbro (1865), Nyköping (1867), Baldersnäs (1870; tillsammans med David Hummel), Rydboholm[förtydliga] (1871), Breven (1878), Helsingborg (1881), Landskrona (1881), Askersund (1889) och Grisslehamn (1895), jämte åtföljande beskrivningar. Utöver nedanstående skrifter översatte och bearbetade han Archibald...
1757-1819
Upptagen hos Tooley som 'Swedish Royal Geographer' med en karta 'Lands Wägarne genom södra Sverige 1792'. Det är möjligt att denna karta är den enda som Linnerhjelm har varit redaktör för.
Skalan är ca 1:1.100.000.
Bland arbeten.
Lands Wägarne genom södra Sverige 1792
RdeT Tooley
Vägvisare för XI Olympiaden i Berlin - 1936
Flugblomster, Ophrys muscifera - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.
GERRITSZ [GERARD, GERARDUS, GHERRITSZOON van ASSUM].
Biografiska uppgifter:Hessel 1581-1632.
Gerritsz was apprenticed to W. J. Blaeu as an engraver before starting in business on his own account. He worked closely with Petrus Plancius and his merit may be judged by the fact that he was appointed Cartographer to the Dutch East India Company in preference to Blaeu and subsequently held the same position in a newly formed West India Company. With the new company he came into touch with Johannes de
Laet for whom he prepared a number of new maps of America in the latter's Nieuwe Wereldt published in 1625. His most important early work was a chart showing Henry Hudson's discoveries in his voyage of 1610-11: it is the first to give an outline of Hudson's Bay and indicates Hudson's belief that he had found a way to the North West Passage.
Engraver, cartographer, publisher and bookseller, b. Assum, apprenticed as engraver to Blaeu, Cartographer to Dutch E. India Co. 1617, fl. 1607; from 1612 using sign 'in de Paskaert' or 'sub signo Tabulae Nauticae'. Addresses: (1) opt Water bij die oude Brug [1609], (2) by die Lienbaens Brugh [1616], (3) Nieuwe Zijds Voorburgwal [1624], (4) Doelestraat [1627-32].
Engraved 17 Netherlands (1608?, lost)
Gulick Cleve 1610,
Spain 1612-(15),
Besch. van de Samoyeden Landt 1612,
Besch. van de Zeecusten van Ierlandt 1612,
engd. Blaeu's Lithuania 1613,
Russia 1613,
Italy 1617,
MS charts E. Indies, Pacific & c. 1617-22,
maps in Laet's Novus Orbis 1625,
Eendrachts' Land (W. Australia) 1627,
Rotario W. Indies & S. America 1628-32 MSS.
(Tooley.)
