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Biografier.

TINDAL, NICHOLAS.

1685-1774.
English translator, historian and publisher. Published various map books, among them the fifteen volumes of Tindal's Continuation of Mr Rapin 's History of England


Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.

Halma, Francois.

1653-1722.
A book publisher who started business in Utrecht and later moved to Amsterdam and finally settled in Leeuwarden.

ANDERSSON, CARL CHRISTOFFER.

Född 1800 21/9 i Tortuna sn (Västm.), död 1863 18/7 i Stockholm (Klara).
Gravör vid Sjökarteverket, tecknare och målare. Son av kopparstickaren Samuel A. Och Charlotta Christina Lindius Elev vid Konstakademien, där han 1816 erhöll en jetton. Lärde sig samtidigt gravera för C. D. Forssell.



Bland arbeten.
W. M. CARPELAN, Handatlas, Sthlm 1827-34: 21 kolor. kartblad över Europa.


Hultmark, 1944.


Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.


Stjernvall - C. H. Tersmeden ca 1900.

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L'ENFANT, PIERRE CHARLES.

Biografiska uppgifter:1754-1825.
L'Enfant was born in Paris where he trained to be an architect. He came to America in 1777, and served George Washington as an engineer during the Revolutionary War. In 1791 President Washington asked L'Enfant to design the new capitol city in the District of Columbia. L'Enfant designed a city similar in layout to the then French capitol city of Versailles. The Capitol in Washington sits in a position similar to that of the palace in Versailles, the White House (originally called the President's House) in the position of Grand Trianon, and the Mall is like the Parc. The Commissioners of the City of Washington wanted to have a printed copy of the plan when they began to sell building lots. L'Enfant irritated them by working slowly and releasing only sketchy plans . On instruction from President Washington, Thomas Jefferson on February 27, 1792 wrote a letter to L'Enfant dismissing him as city planner. L'Enfant died penniless and was buried on a friend's estate. In 1909 his remains were moved to Arlington National Cemetery on a hill overlooking the capitol city.



(Washington Map Society. Se även wikipedias artikel, 'Pierre Charles L'Enfant'. )

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