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Biografier.

Halma, Francois.

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

WIRSING, GEORG MICHAEL.

Född 1822 8/3 i Schweinfurt (Bayem), död 1894 3/1 i Stockholm (Tyska förs.).
Gravör. Anlände till Stockholm 1858 4/11 med pass från Berlin. Anställdes s. å. som gravör å topografiska avdelningen vid Generalstabens litografiska anstalt. Blev 1879 26/9 svensk medborgare. Erhöll 1891 avsked med en årlig pension av 1,500 kronor från riksdagen.

Bland arbeten.
Karta, detalj, 1865.


Hultmark, 1944.

Spielmann, Jacob Reinhold


Bland arbeten.
Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines.


Karta öfver Stockholm. - 1904.


Örbyhus - Nay 1881.

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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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