1848-1917. Född och död i Bergen.
norsk officer. Han blev 1870 officer, anställd vid Bergenske infanteribrigade, 1889 kapten och 1908 major. Han var mycket anlitad som ingenjör och konstruktör av vägar och kajer på Vestlandet. Han gav även ut flera kartor över Bergen, Vossevangen, Ålesund, Nordland och Finnmarken.
Slekten Vedeler. - U.B.
d'Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon
Born in Paris July 11, 1697 – died January 28, 1782.
Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (born in Paris July 11, 1697 – January 28, 1782), was both a geographer and cartographer who greatly improved the standards of map-making. His maps of ancient geography, characterized by careful, accurate work and based largely on original research, are especially valuable. He left unknown areas of continents blank and noted doubtful information as such; compared to the lavish maps of his predecessors, his maps looked empty.
Work
D'Anville's map of China and Central Asia (1734) for du Halde's 'Description geographique de la Chine', compiled based on the first systematic geographic survey of the entire Chinese Empire by a team of French Jesuits (ca. 1700)
His passion for geographical research displayed itself from early years: at age of twelve he was already amusing himself by drawing maps for Latin authors. Later, his friendship with the antiquarian, Abbé Longuerue, greatly aided his studies.
His first serious map, that of Ancient Greece, was published when ...
Bland arbeten.
Pere J. B. du Halde with maps by d'Anville, 'Description geographique de la Chine', 1735.
'Nouvel Atlas de la Chine', 1737.
'Atlas Generale', circa 1740.
'Geographie Ancienne et Abregee', 1769.
Tjänstgjorde i svenska fortifikationskåren. '.. var av balttysk härstamning och sedan 1632 stadsingeniör i Riga'.
Kart & Bildteknik 2003:3, artikel "Från Nyen till Hiddensee. Svensk kartläggning under 1600-talet". Av Ulla Ehrensvärd.
Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.
Knölsmörblomma, Ranunculus bulbosus - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.
