1740-1817. Född och död i Paris.
Fransk geograf. Verkade som lärare i geografi och gav bl.a. ut 'Apercu historique et géographique des Quatre Parties du Monde' (1790), 'Des usage de la Sphère, des globes céleste et terrestre' (1790) och 'Description géographique et historique des peuples les plus renommés de l'Europe ancienne (1809). Under 1790-talet ansvarade han för olika nyutgåvor av Robert de Vaugondys atlas och gav även ut 'Nouvel Atlas portatif de la Géographie ancienne' (1809) samt 'Atlas élémentaire' som kom i flera utgåvor.
Bland arbeten.
Apercu historique et géographique des Quatre Parties du Monde.
Des usage de la Sphère, des globes céleste et terrestre.
Description géographique et historique des peuples les plus renommés de l'Europe ancienne.
Nouvel Atlas portatif de la Géographie ancienne.
Atlas élémentaire.
Nouv. biogr. gen. - Phillips.
Knight Leontiy Vassilievich Spafaryev (1765 - 30 January 1847) was a Lieutenant General of the Imperial Russian Navy. Spafaryev was Director of the Lighthouse Administration and cartographer of the Russian Admiralty.
Spafariev was an important contributor to the improvement of navigation along the Russian coasts. The first lighthouses in Russia were built during tsar Peter the Great's drive for reform and modernization at the beginning of the 18th century. However, it was only until the Administration of Lighthouses was created in 1807 that the Russian lighthouse system followed an organized pattern, becoming effective and efficient. This office was established by the Russian Navy and it began under the leadership of Leontiy V. Spafaryev.
As a cartographer, perhaps his most outstanding work is the 'Atlas of the Gulf of Finland', published in 1817. His name is spelt as 'Spafarief' or 'Spafarieff' in the United States.
The Spafaryev Islands in the Sea of Okhotsk and Spafarief Bay in the coast of Alaska...
Bland arbeten.
Atlas of the Gulf of Finland containing the South Coast, with the Islands from cape Luserort to Cronstadt with Light houses & Towers necessary to be known for sailing by night.
1851-1914.
Norsk ingenjör. 1874 fick han anställning som ingenjör vid 'Vassdragsvesenet' där han sedan verkade. Han deltog mycket i mätningsarbeten över hela Norge och utförde ett grundläggande undersökningsarbete vid förberedelserna av Bandakkanalen. Förutom Norgekartor gav han även ut specialkartor över Bandak-Nordsjökanalen samt över sträckan Christiania-Bergen.
T U. 1914. - U.B.
Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.
'Lypertö - Naantali - Nådendal' - Finland 1920.
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.)
