1779-1868.
Son of engraver Fredric Akrel. Worked on the fortification of the Trollhätte Canal and defence posts in the Stockholm archipelago. Served as major and senior aide-de-camp for King Karl Johan in the First Napoleonic War and was seriously wounded in the chest in the storming of Leipzig. Was made a noble in 1819. Promoted to lieutenant general and appointed head of the Telegraph administration in 1854. A hobby engraver, producing among others the maps for Sweden 's Marine Atlas (Sveriges SjöatIas).
Bland arbeten.
Sveriges SjöatIas.
Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.
d'Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon
Born in Paris July 11, 1697 – died January 28, 1782.
Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (born in Paris July 11, 1697 – January 28, 1782), was both a geographer and cartographer who greatly improved the standards of map-making. His maps of ancient geography, characterized by careful, accurate work and based largely on original research, are especially valuable. He left unknown areas of continents blank and noted doubtful information as such; compared to the lavish maps of his predecessors, his maps looked empty.
Work
D'Anville's map of China and Central Asia (1734) for du Halde's 'Description geographique de la Chine', compiled based on the first systematic geographic survey of the entire Chinese Empire by a team of French Jesuits (ca. 1700)
His passion for geographical research displayed itself from early years: at age of twelve he was already amusing himself by drawing maps for Latin authors. Later, his friendship with the antiquarian, Abbé Longuerue, greatly aided his studies.
His first serious map, that of Ancient Greece, was published when ...
Bland arbeten.
Pere J. B. du Halde with maps by d'Anville, 'Description geographique de la Chine', 1735.
'Nouvel Atlas de la Chine', 1737.
'Atlas Generale', circa 1740.
'Geographie Ancienne et Abregee', 1769.
1682-1749.
Chief surveyor in Västerbotten province.
Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.
Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.
Övergången av Dyna den 9 juli 1701. - Stockholm 1922.
