VÖBAM - Din källa till den äldre bild- och kartvärlden. - Tel: 08-102121 - Epost: info@vobam.se
Biografier.

Cardon, Johan Elias.

Född 17 oktober 1802 i Stockholm, död 3 juli 1878 i Stockholm.
Johan Elias Cardon var en svensk konstnär, litograf och hovgravör.
Gift med Britta Kristina Sundberg född 14 september 1812 död 7 juli 1894. Far till två döttrar, Ida Cardon född 13 juli 1839 och död 10 mars 1881 och Kerstin Cardon samt bror till litograferna Carl Oskar och Oskar Daniel Cardon.
Cardon var av vallonsk släkt. Efter ett års studier i handelslära i Härnösand hoppade Cardon av utbildningen för att bli elev hos kopparstickaren Christian Forssell i Stockholm samtidigt studerade han vid Konstakademien. På ett kungligt stipendium studerade han litografins teknik i Paris 1830-1831 och 1833-1834 samt i München 1832. Han blev agré vid Konstakademien 1835 och ledamot 1843 med titeln kunglig litograf.
Tillsammans med A. M. Spong startade han 1835 ett litografiskt tryckeri där man införde de moderna litografimetoder Cardon studerat i Tyskland och Frankrike.
Hans produktion omfattar omkring 600 blad huvudsakligen med porträtt bilder. Hans största samlade porträttverk gavs ut 1842 under namnet Gal...

HIMBERG, CLAES FREDRIK.

Född 1787 27/10 i Stockholm (Ad. Fredr.), död 1853 17/5 i samma stad (Hedv. El).
Gravör. Son av trädgårdsmästaren Nils H. och Catharina Lind. Elev vid Konstakademien, där han erhöll en tredjemedalj 1805. Blev 1846 4/9 omyndigförklarad och ställd under bokhållaren Gustaf Himbergs fömynderskap.
Bland arbeten.
N. G. WERMING, Kartor öfver svenska städer, u. o. [1806-19]: 3 blad, bl.a. Belägenheten af Falkenberg, 1813, och Belägenheten af Ängelholm, 1815. (Hultmark, 1944.)

KLÜWER, LORENTZ DIDERIK.

1790-1825. Född i Verdalen, död i Trondheim.
Norsk officer. 1808 blev han officer, 1815 kapten och divisionsadjutant i Trondheim och 1823 major. Under åren 1810-14 utarbetade han en rad kartor över militära områden i Trondheims stift. Dessa kartor, som tidigare aldrig getts ut, ligger till grund för flera senare kartarbeten. Klüwer hade även starka arkeologiska intressen och lade ned ett betydande arbete vid utgrävning och registrering av fornminnen i sitt distrikt. Han var medlem av 'Det kgl. Norske Videnskapbers Selskab' i Trondheim och det svenska sällskapet Götiska förbundet.


Halvorsen. - Ovenstad.


Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.


'Östersjön. Karlshamn - Åhus.' - Stockholm 1929.

Sök efter biografi:

Du sökte på: 10285

Klicka på valfri bokstav för att återgå till hela listan.  

A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z  Å  Ä  Ö

NICOLAUS GERMANUS.

Often called 'Donis' from a misapprehension of the title 'Donnus' or 'Donus' an abbreviated form of 'Dominus.
A fifteenth-century cartographer, place of birth, and date of birth and death unknown. The first allusion to him of authentic date is an injunction of Duke Borso d'Este (15 March, 1466) to his referendary and privy counselor, Ludovico Casella, at Ferrara, to have the 'Cosmographia of Don Nicolò' thoroughly examined and then to determine a recompense for it. The duke, on the thirtieth of the same month, called upon his treasurers for 100 florins in gold 'to remit as a mark of his appreciation to Donnus Nicolaus Germanus for his excellent book entitled 'Cosmographia''. On 8 April, 1466, the duke again drew thirty golden florins to present to the Rev. Nicolaus, who 'in addition to that excellent Cosmography' (ultra illud excellens Cosmographie opus) had dedicated to the duke a calendar made to cover many years to come ('librum tacuini multorum annorum'). The 'Cosmographia' as preserved in the Bibliotheca Estensis at Modena comprises a Latin translation of the Geography of Ptolemy with maps. The version of the geographical text is substantially the same as that dedicated in 1410 to Pope Alexander V by Jacopo Angelo, a Florentine. In the execution of the maps, however, Nicolaus, instead of adhering to the flat projection of Ptolemy, chose what is known as the 'Donis-projection', because first worked out by him, in which the parallels of latitude are equi- distant, but the meridians are made to converge towards the pole. He likewise introduced new modes in delineating the outlines of countries and oceans, mountains and lakes, as well as in the choice of cartographic proportions. He reduced the awkward size to one which was convenient for use; the obscure and often unattractive mode of presentation he replaced by one both tasteful and easily intelligible; he endeavored to revise obsolete maps in accordance with later information and to supplement them with new maps. While his first recension embraced only the twenty-seven maps of Ptolemy (one map of the world, ten special maps of Europe, four of Africa, twelve of Asia), the second comprised thirty (including in addition modern maps of Spain, Italy, and the Northern countries: Sweden, Norway, and Greenland). The last-named enlarged recension he dedicated as priest to Pope Paul II (1464-71). He dedicated to the same pontiff his third recension, containing thirty-two maps, adding modern maps of France and the Holy Land. The works of the German cartographer were of great value in diffusing the knowledges of Ptolemy's Geography. The first recension, probably the very copy in the Lenox Library (New York), is the basis of the Roman editions of Ptolemy bearing the dates 1478, 1490, and 1507; on the third, certainly the copy preserved in Wolfegg Castle, are based the Ulm editions of 1482 and 1486. By combining the Roman and Ulm editions Waldseemüller produced the maps of Ptolemy in the Strasburg edition of 1513, which was frequently copied. The modern map of the Northern countries, made by Claudius Clavus, which Nicolaus embodied in his second recension of Ptolemy, was perhaps the source of the Zeni map which had such far-reaching influence, and likewise of the maritime charts of the Canerio and Cantino type. The revised map of the Northern countries in the third recension of Nicolaus, which placed Greenland north of the Scandinavian Peninsula, was a powerful factor in cartography for a century, especially as Waldseemuller gave the preference to this representation in his world and wall map of 1507, 'the baptismal certificate of America'. Because of these and other services to geography and cartography, as for example, by the revision of Buondelmonte's 'Insularium', it would be desirable to have it established whether Nicolaus was really, as I conjecture, a Benedictine father of the Badia at Florence.
(FISCHER, Nicolaus Germanus in Entdeckungen der Normannen in Amerika (Freiburg, 1902), 75-90, 113 sqq. (Eng. tr., London, 1903), 72-86, 108 sqq.)

Tillbaka till början.