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GRUNDSTRÖM, CARL GUSTAF.

Född 1771 29/5, död under finska kriget 1808-09.
Fältväbel vid Åbo läns infanteriregemente. Kartograf och gravör.
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Bland arbeten.
Karta över Skagshamn jämte stilprov.


Hultmark, 1944.

SCULTETUS, JONAS.

1603-1664.
Silesian cartographer.

Bland arbeten.
Glatz 1626 used by Jansson 1636 & Blaeu 1640,
Silesia used by Jansson & Blaeu,
Breslau Jansson 1659.


Tooley.

NORDENSKJÖLD, OTTO HENRIK.

1747-1832.
Naval commission in 1764, retiring as vice-admiral 1790. The royal letter of discharge lauded him for his 'splendid fidelity and bravery.'


Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.


Karta öfver Stockholm. - 1904.


Orre, albinistisk tupp - Olof Rudbeck d.y.

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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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