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WERGELAND, HARALD NICOLAI STORM.

1814-93. Född i Bergen, död i Christiania (Oslo).
Norsk officer. Tog examen 1831 vid Krigsskolan, år 1849 blev han kapten i artilleribrigaden, 1852 överstelöjtnant vid Generalstaben, 1856 överste och chef för 'Kristiansandske infanteribrigaden'. Under åren 1857-60 var han chef för Generalstaben i Norge och 1859 blev han utnämnd till generalmajor och var 1860-68 chef för norska armédepartementet. Efter att ha tagit avsked som statsråd blev han chef för '2:a Akershusiske infanteribrigaden' och 1875 utnämnd till generallöjtnant. Från 1840 var Wergeland under några år anställd som trigonometrist vid 'Norges Geografiska Opmaaling'. 1849 deltog han i norsk-ryska gränsdragningen. Waligorskis och Wergelands vägkarta utgavs första gången 1847 och kom fram till 1893 i 8 nyutgåvor. Wergeland var ofta anlitad i militärt organisationsarbete och var dessutom den förste medlemmen i 'Norsk Jaeger- og Fiskerforening'.


Halvorsen.

Chavannes, Alexandre César


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

Waesbergen, Johannes Janssonius van.

fl. 1661-81 (JAN JANSSON'S HEIRS)
Van Waesbergen, established as a bookseller in Amsterdam, acquired by inheritance from his father-in-law Jan Jansson many of Jansson's plates including those of the Atlas Minor, the Civitates Orbis Terrarum and the Atlas of the Antique World. These works were republished by him, or after his death in 1681 by his son, also named Johannes. For a time he was associated with Moses Pitt in the abortive attempt in 1680-81 to publish an English version of the major atlases by Blaeu and Jansson.


Karta öfver Stockholm. - 1904.


Terracotta Vases, Pl. IX

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KEULEN, JOHANNES van.

Biografiska uppgifter:1653-1715.
In 1680 was given special endorsement from the Dutch state to print and publish sea charts and sailing instructions. The van Keulen family's best-known work is Nieuwe Groote Ligtende Zee-Fakkel a world atlas in five volumes, published by Johannes's son Gerard and subsequently by Gerard's children and grandchildren.

As we have noted in other biographies in this chapter, the Dutch produced a remarkable number of enterprising and prolific map and chart makers but not even the Blaeu and Jansson establishments could rival the vigour of the van Keulen family whose business was founded in 1680 and continued under their name until 1823 and in other names until 1885 when it was finally wound up and the stock dispersed at auction. Throughout the history of the family, the widows of several of the van Keulens played a major part, after their husbands' deaths, in maintaining the continuity of the business.
The firm was founded by Johannes van Keulen who was registered as a bookseller in Amsterdam in 1678. In 1680 he published the first part of his Zee Atlas which, over the years, was expanded to 5 volumes and continued in one form or another until 1734. More ambitious and with a far longer and more complicated life was his book of sea charts, the Zee-Fakkel, published in 1681-82 which was still being printed round the year 1800. A major influence in the development of the firm was the acquisition in 1693 of the stock of a rival map publisher, Hendrik Doncker.
Although the firm was founded by Johannes van Keulen, he was primarily a publisher; it was his son, Gerard, a talented engraver, mathematician, Hydrographer to the East India Company, who became the mainspring of the business which not only published charts but also books on every aspect of geography, navigation and nautical matters.
Gerard Hulst van Keulen was a member of the distinguished van Keulen family, which was amongst the most prolific and highly respected families of Dutch cartographers active between about 1680 and 1822. While the family was renowned for its sea-charts and associated material, Gerard's arrival in the family business in 1757, along with his brother Cornelis Buys, heralded a change in direction. More books appeared and there was greater diversification in the cartographic side of the business.

(Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.)

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