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Biografier.

GRIMMEL, JOHANN ELIAS.

1703-1759. Född i Memmingen, Bayern.
Målare, gravör och konstruktionsritare. Anlände till St Petersburg 1741 tillsammans med gravören Johann Stenglein. Grimmel medverkade bl.a. i utgivningen av en 'Atlas Russicus' 1745 (Inte d'Isles atlas som kom samma år med samma namn.), samt gav även ut ett arbete i fyra blad 'Ladoga-kanal' 1741-42.
En av Grimmels elever vid vetenskapsakademin var Mikhail Makhayev.
Matthaeus Seutter gjorde kopior på vissa av Grimmels kartor så tidigt som under 1740-talet, bland annat 'Ingria et Carelia' samt 'Teshenije Nevy reky...'.
Bland arbeten.
Finskoj zaliv ot Kronshtata do Sanktpeterburga... = Der Sinus Finnicus von Cronstad bis St.Petersbürg benebst den aug seinen Kusten befindlichen Lusthöfen [engraved map] / J. Grimmel del. [St. Petersburg, c.1742].
Karta Ingermanlandii i Karelii. [The Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg]; Grimel del. - [St. Petersburg, c.1742].
Ladozhkoj kanal. Canalis Ladogensis [engraved map] / J. Grimmel del. [St. Petersburg, c.1742].
Ladozhskoe Ozero i Finskii zaliv s prilezhashchimi mestami. Lacus Ladoga et sinus Finnicus. [The Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg]; J. Grimel del. [St. Petersburg, c.1742].
Magnus Ducatus Finlandiae. [The Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg]; Grimel del. - [St. Petersburg, c.1743].
Techenije Nevy reky iz Ladozhgago ozera k St.Peterburgu = Fluwius Newa... [engraved map] / J: Grimmel del. - [St. Petersburg, c.1741-42].

MARTINES, JOAN.


Katalansk kartograf som emigrerade till Sicilien (1583). Utgav åtminstone en atlas.


RdeT.

ELLICOTT, ANDREW.

1754-1820.
Ellicott, a Quaker, was raised in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. His father was a prosperous miller whose family founded Ellicott City, Maryland in 1775. Andrew Ellicott was trained to be a mathematician and surveyor. He conducted several large surveys with David Rittenhouse, the Philadelphia astronomer, mathematician, and clockmaker. President Washington in 1791 asked Ellicott to survey the bounds of the District of Columbia. The following year Washington asked him to complete L'Enfant's plan for the city. Ellicott made some changes to L'Enfant's plan. He changed the alignment of Massachusetts Avenue, eliminated five short radial avenues, added two short radial avenues southeast and southwest of the Capitol, and named the city streets. In less than one month Ellicott had a plan ready for the engravers. A few months later Ellicott, like L'Enfant, found himself at odds with the Commissioners and resigned from the project.


Washington Map Society. Se även wikipedias artikel, 'Andrew Ellicott'.


Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.


'Stockholms skärgård. Växlet - Stockholm - Sandhamn'. - Stockholm 1932.

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Verden, Karl van.

Carl Van Verden (fl. c. 1718 - 1730) was a Dutch seaman in the employ of the Russian Navy during the early 18th century. Van Verden is best known for his important 1719 - 1721 mapping of the Caspian Sea, which was the most sophisticated and accurate that had been issued to date. A significant cartographic achievement, Van Verden's work on the Caspian led directly to Peter the Great's 1722 invasion of Baku and Derbent and Russian hegemony in the region. Despite his achievements in the Caspian, Van Verden was later passed up by the Tzar in favor of Vitus Behring for the commission to discover a Northeast Passage through the Russian Arctic.

Around 1718 the Russian Tzar, Peter the Great, sponsored a number of cartographic expeditions to the farthest reaches of his vast empire. Most of these were headed up by Dutch navigators, the most experienced and mercenary of the era. Carl Van Verden, a Dutch seaman, was commissioned as a Russian naval officer and assigned the task of mapping the Caspian Sea. Though well known since antiquity the world’s largest lake was largely ignored by surveyors until Van Verden’s work in the early 18th century. Van Verden’s work had significant political ramifications. Peter the Great, Russia’s most expansionist Tzar, was determined to make the Caspian a “Russian Lake” and invaded the region in 1722 seizing Derbent and Baku.

Copies of Van Verden’s work eventually made their way to Paris via Nicholas de L’Isle, brother to the more famous cartographer G. de L’Isle. Geographers in Paris quick recognized the importance of the work and the era most significant cartographers and map publishers, including Homann, De L’Isle, Moll, and Covens and Mortier, were quick to copy and publish their own variants of the Van Verden chart. This example is of the more obscure such charts. Published in Paris around 1730, this map offers a number of important elements. All text is in both French and transliterated Russian, so “Bulsebek” becomes “Usbech” and “La Mer Caspie” becomes “More Gualenskoi”, etc. Many of the mountains along the lake’s western and southern shores are noted and curiously rendered with an unusual lake-centric orientation. Also noted are the Caspian’s various reefs, shoals, sandbars, and other undersea dangers.
Bland arbeten:
Carte Marine de la Mer Caspiene.

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