1768-1832. Född i Köpenhamn, död i Christiania (Oslo).
Norsk officer. Officer i 'Ingenjörskorpsen'. 1790 kom han till Norge där han tillsammans med kaptenlöjtnant C.F. Grove (se denne) och löjtnant N.A. Wibe (se denne) utförde den första trigonometriska trianguleringen av den norska kusten. Vid avslutandet av detta arbete blev han år 1800 stationerad i Kristiansand som ingenjörsofficer. 1803 blev han kapten och 1810 major och förste direktör för 'Den kombinerade militära och ekonomiska uppmätningen' (senare 'Norges Geografiske Oppmåling'). Denna befattning hade han till den dag han dog. 1815 blev han dessutom chef för Ingenjörskorpsen och år 1818 generalmajor.
N. biogr. leks. - de Seue.
1440-1514. Född och död i Nürnberg.
Tysk läkare och historiker. Studerade först vid universitetet i Leipzig där han år 1459 blev magister. Facken var de vanliga lärdomsämnena. Senare specialiserade han sig på läkarvetenskapen och tog 1466 en medicinsk doktorsgrad i Padua. Efter flera års verksamhet som läkare i olika städer verkade han från 1484 i Nürnberg. Redan som student visade han starkt intresse för historia. Han bedrev bl.a. en betydande samlarverksamhet, speciellt av handskrifter av olika slag och han blev efter hand väl ansedd i ledande humanistkretsar. På uppdrag av den berömde boktryckaren Anton Koburger utarbetade han en världskrönika som kom ut 1493 på latin och tyska, och senare i flera utgåvor. 'Nürnbergerkröniken' är inte något självständigt forskningsarbete utan ett resultat av Schedels samlarverksamhet. Det som är av störst intresse är illustrationerna, som utfördes i träsnitt av Michel Wolgemuth och Wilhelm Pleydenwurff. Med sina 1.809 träsnitt är boken det rikast illustrerade tyska verk från 1400-talet.
Bland arbeten.
Nürnbergerkröniken.
Haitz. - Lex. d. Buchw.
Carl Van Verden (fl. c. 1718 - 1730) was a Dutch seaman in the employ of the Russian Navy during the early 18th century. Van Verden is best known for his important 1719 - 1721 mapping of the Caspian Sea, which was the most sophisticated and accurate that had been issued to date. A significant cartographic achievement, Van Verden's work on the Caspian led directly to Peter the Great's 1722 invasion of Baku and Derbent and Russian hegemony in the region. Despite his achievements in the Caspian, Van Verden was later passed up by the Tzar in favor of Vitus Behring for the commission to discover a Northeast Passage through the Russian Arctic.
Around 1718 the Russian Tzar, Peter the Great, sponsored a number of cartographic expeditions to the farthest reaches of his vast empire. Most of these were headed up by Dutch navigators, the most experienced and mercenary of the era. Carl Van Verden, a Dutch seaman, was commissioned as a Russian naval officer and assigned the task of mapping the Caspian Sea. Though we...
Bland arbeten.
Carte Marine de la Mer Caspiene.
Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.
Ehrensparre - C. H. Tersmeden ca 1900.
Keere, Pieter van den [Kaerius, Petrus]
Biografiska uppgifter:1571-c. 1646.
Pieter van den Keere was one of a number of refugees who fled from religious persecution in the Low Countries between the years 1570 and 1 590. He moved to London in 1584 with his sister who married Jodocus Hondius, also a refugee there, and through Hondius he undoubtedly learned his skills as an engraver and cartographer. In the course of a long working life he engraved a large number of individual maps for prominent cartographers of the day but he also produced an Atlas of the Netherlands (1617-22) and county maps of the British Isles which have become known as Miniature Speeds, a misnomer which calls for some explanation.
In about 1599 he engraved plates for 44 maps of the English and Welsh counties, the regions of Scotland and the Irish provinces. The English maps were based on Saxton, the Scottish on Ortelius and the Irish on the famous map by Boazio. These maps were not published at once in book form but there is evidence which suggests a date of issue (in Amsterdam) between 1605 and 1610 although at least one authority believes they existed only in proof form until 1617 when Willem Blaeu issued them with a Latin edition of Camden's Britannia. At this stage two maps were added, one of the British Isles and the other of Yorkshire, the latter derived from Saxton. To confuse things further the title page of this edition is signed 'Guilielmus noster Janssonius', which is the Latinized form of Blaeu's name commonly used up to 1619.
At some time after this the plates came into the possession of Speed's publishers, George Humble, who in 1627, the year in which he published a major edition of Speed's Atlas, also issued the Keere maps as a pocket edition. For these he used the descriptive texts of the larger Speed maps and thereafter they were known as Miniature Speeds. In fact, of the 63 maps in the Atlas, 40 were from the original van den Keere plates, reworked, 16 were reduced from Speed and 7 were additional. The publication was very popular and there were further re-issues up to 1676.
