Född 1833 5/9 i Ljusdals sn (Gävleb.), död 1889 3/3 i Karlstad.
Major i armén. Landshövding. Kartograf och etsare. Son av lantmätaren och landshövdingen Per Henrik W. och Carolina Andrietta Ström. Kartograf vid Rikets allmänna kartverk 1859-73. Var kapten vid Hälsinge regemente och major i armén, då han 1873 utnämndes till landshövding i Norrbottens län. Erhöll 1885 transport till Värmlands län.
Bland arbeten.
Karta över Göta kanal med utsikter, efter A. Nay, etsn.
Hultmark, 1944.
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 Biblioth...
FISCHER, Nicolaus Germanus in Entdeckungen der Normannen in Amerika (Freiburg, 1902), 75-90, 113 sqq. (Eng. tr., London, 1903), 72-86, 108 sqq.
PIJNACKER [PYNACKER], CORNELIUS.
1570-1645.
Dutch cartographer.
Bland arbeten.
Drent 1634, used by Hondius & Blaeu.
Tooley.
Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.
Funck - C. H. Tersmeden ca 1900.