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Biografier.

AKRELL, CARL FREDRIC.

1779-1868.
Son of engraver Fredric Akrel. Worked on the fortification of the Trollhätte Canal and defence posts in the Stockholm archipelago. Served as major and senior aide-de-camp for King Karl Johan in the First Napoleonic War and was seriously wounded in the chest in the storming of Leipzig. Was made a noble in 1819. Promoted to lieutenant general and appointed head of the Telegraph administration in 1854. A hobby engraver, producing among others the maps for Sweden 's Marine Atlas (Sveriges SjöatIas).


Bland arbeten.
Sveriges SjöatIas.


Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.

WEBER, JOHANN JACOB.

1803-80.
Tysk förlagsbokhandlare. Född i Siblingen, död i Leipzig. Efter utbildning i bokhandlarkonsten i Basel, Genève, Paris och Freiburg etablerade han sig i Leipzig 1833. Han intresserade sig speciellt för illustrerade verk och gav bl.a. ut 'Pfenningmagazin' och 'Illustrierte Zeitung'. Förlaget existerade åtminstone till 1950-talet.

Bland arbeten.
Pfenningmagazin.
Illustrierte Zeitung.


Der Grosse Brockhaus.

PENNANT, THOMAS.

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...


Vägvisare för XI Olympiaden i Berlin - 1936


'Estats de Pologne Suboivisés suiuant l'estendue des Palatinats...' - Jaillot 1681, P. Mortier ca 1711.

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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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