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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.
1774-1836.
Appointed engineer at the Survey Office in 1801, but was not eligible for salary until a permanent position became vacant. In 1809 was commissioned lieutenant at the marine measurement corps and made supervisor at the Sea Charts Office. Known for his skill and great modesty.
Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.
Vägvisare för XI Olympiaden i Berlin - 1936
Fjellbacka. - Stockholm 1891.
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.
