June 14, 1726 - December 16, 1798.
Was a Welsh naturalist and antiquary.
The Pennants were a Welsh gentry family from the parish of Whitford, Flintshire, who had built up a modest estate at Bychton by the seventeenth century. In 1724 Thomas' father, David Pennant, also inherited the neighbouring Downing estate from a cousin, considerably augmenting the family's fortune. Downing Hall, where Thomas was born in the 'yellow room', became the main Pennant residence.
Pennant received his early education at Wrexham grammar school, before moving to Thomas Croft's school in Fulham in 1740. In 1744 entered Queen's College, Oxford, later moving to Oriel College. Like many students from a wealthy background, he left Oxford without taking a degree, although in 1771 his work as a zoologist was recognised with an honorary degree.
At the age of twelve, Pennant later recalled, he had been inspired with a passion for natural history through being presented with Francis Willughby's Ornithology. A tour in Cornwall in 1746-1747, where he met the antiquary...
C:a 1550.
Kartograf verksam i Mecheln, Belgien. Styvfar till Franz Hogenberg.
Född 1766 11/4 på Lunds gård i Edsbergs sn (Ör.), död 1838 12/4 i Stockholm (Maria).
Bergsråd. Direktör. Industriell bruksledare. Kopparstickare, litograf och träsnidare. Författare. Son av kronofogden Gustaf B. och Anna Christina Robsahm. Elev av Jacob Gillberg. Student vid Uppsala universitet 1783. Auskultant i Bergskollegium 1788. Ledamot av Vetenskapsakademien 1797. Vistades 1797-99 i England för att studera järntillverkning. Bergsråds titel 1817, direktör för Mynt- och kontrollverket 1833.
Bland arbeten.
S. G. HERMELIN, Geographiske chartor öfver Sverige, I, Sthlm 1797: Karta över Ångermanland, Medelpad och Jämtland, 1797, samt Karta över Härjedalen, 1797.
S. G. HERMELIN, Försök till mineral historia öfver Lappmarken och Vesterbotten, Sthlm 1804: Swappawara koppar och järngrufwor uti Torneå lappmark, karta.
Hultmark, 1944.
Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734
Ripört, Chamæorchis alpinus - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.
Grasset de Sainte-Sauveur, Jaques
Biografiska uppgifter:Montreal 1757 - Paris 1810.
A late eighteenth and early nineteenth century French (Canadian) artist, writer and diplomat, Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur left Montreal in 1764 and began his studies with the Jesuits of Sainte-Barbe, in Paris. His first published book, Costumes civils de tous les peoples connus, dates from 1784. It deals with his lifelong passion of chronicling the peoples of other lands, particularly in remote areas. His other works include, Tableaux cosmographiques de l'Europe, l'Asie, l'Afrique et l'Amerique (1787), L'Antique Rome (1795), Encyclopedie des voyages (1796), and Voyage picturesque dans les autres parties du monde (1806). Groenlandais (Native of Greenland) was engraved by Labrousse for the c. 1797 publication, Costumes de different pays. Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur both designed the engravings and wrote the text for all of these publications. Besides being an artist and writer Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur also led an active diplomatic career. He served as France's vice-consul in Hungary and elsewhere. Today the art of Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur may be found in the following collections; the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, the National Library of Australia, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand, and the New York Public Library.
Bland arbeten:
Costumes civils de tous les peoples connus (1784), Tableaux cosmographiques de l'Europe, l'Asie, l'Afrique et l'Amerique (1787), L'Antique Rome (1795), Encyclopedie des voyages (1796), Voyage picturesque dans les autres parties du monde (1806), Costumes de different pays (c. 1797).
