Född 1774 i Nagyvárad, död 8 januari 1881 i Szatmárnémeti, bägge i dagens Rumänien.
Skriftställare och jurist. Student vid Kalvinistkollegiet i Debrecen 1799, sedermera även vid juridiska fakulteten, universitetet i Pest [Budapest]. Under titeln 'Atlas Antiqvus' ritade studenten Samuel Ajtay sammanlagt 35 manuskriptkartor år 1799. Dessa visar länder i Afrika, Asien och Europa under tiden före 1000-talet med bl.a. folkstammarna inritade. Kartorna målades med akvarellfärger. Atlasens kartor har sedermera skingrats.
Bland arbeten.
Atlas Antiqvus.
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1567-1625 JACOB LE MAIRE d. 1617
The voyage of Schouten/Le Maire in the years 1615-17 was one of the most important in the seventeenth century; they were the first to sail round Cape Horn (named after their home town Hoorn in Holland), disproving the long held theory that Tierra del Fuego r L'Ardante ou Flamboyante Colomne de Ia was part of a southern continent.
Subsequent accounts of the voyage, with maps, were L Colom de la Mer Mediterannee published by Schouten (1618) and Le Maire (posthumously, 1662)
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 Natio...
Washington Map Society. Se även wikipedias artikel, 'Pierre Charles L'Enfant'.
Vägvisare för XI Olympiaden i Berlin - 1936
Kastanj - B. Langley.
