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Biografier.

ÖRNEHUFVUD, OLOF HANSSON SWART.

Född 1600 i jan. i Nya Lödöse, död 1644 27/8 i lägret vid Kattarps by i Västra Skrävlinge sn (Malm.).
Fortifikationsofficer. Kartograf. Tecknare och kopparstickare. Son av handlanden Hans Olofsson och Anna Eriksdotter. Student vid universitetet i Rostock. Skrivare i hertog Johans kanslo 1617 och i kungl. kansliet 1619-24. Fick 1624 Gustav II Adolfs befallning att öva sig i ritare- och ingenjöreskonsten under Anders Bures [Bureus] ledning. Utnämndes 1625 till 'geographus'. Blev 1628 konduktör och 1632 generalkvaratermästare vid Fortifikationen. Adlades 1635 med namned Örnehufvud. Kallade sig tidigare Olof Hansson, Olawus Johannis Gothus och Oluff Hansson Swart. 'Avtecknade såsom åsyna vittne de flesta svenska aktioner och belägringar under tyska kriget; avritade slutligen ävenledes en längd av rikets provinser, synnerligast de vid gränserna med alla dess skärgårdar och hamnar'.
Bland arbeten.
Rigas kapitulation 1621, kopparstick.


Elgenstierna.

MELLINGER, JOHANN.

1540-1603.
Theologian, physician and cartographer of Halle.

Bland arbeten.
Thuringia 1568,
Mansfeld 1571,
Limburg 1593, used later by Hondius & Blaeu.
Plans of Halle & Hildesheim for Braun & Hogenberg 1598.


Tooley.

L'ENFANT, PIERRE CHARLES.

1754-1825.
L'Enfant was born in Paris where he trained to be an architect. He came to America in 1777, and served George Washington as an engineer during the Revolutionary War. In 1791 President Washington asked L'Enfant to design the new capitol city in the District of Columbia. L'Enfant designed a city similar in layout to the then French capitol city of Versailles. The Capitol in Washington sits in a position similar to that of the palace in Versailles, the White House (originally called the President's House) in the position of Grand Trianon, and the Mall is like the Parc. The Commissioners of the City of Washington wanted to have a printed copy of the plan when they began to sell building lots. L'Enfant irritated them by working slowly and releasing only sketchy plans . On instruction from President Washington, Thomas Jefferson on February 27, 1792 wrote a letter to L'Enfant dismissing him as city planner. L'Enfant died penniless and was buried on a friend's estate. In 1909 his remains were moved to Arlington Natio...


Washington Map Society. Se även wikipedias artikel, 'Pierre Charles L'Enfant'.


Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.


'Wickenstorp uti Bobergs H:rad, Brunneby S:kn...'. Manuskriptkarta. 1691.

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Goos, Abraham.

Biografiska uppgifter:fl. 1614-43
Abraham Goos was a noted engraver in Amsterdam who prepared plates for many maps published in well-known atlases of his time including Speed's A Prospect ofthe Most Famous Parts of the World (1627) and the 1632 edition of Speed's Atlas. He was related to the Hondius family by whom he was also employed as an engraver. In 1616 he issued a book of maps, the Nieuw Nederlandtsh Caertboeck (4to) which was re-issued in 1619 and 1625.

His son, Pieter, continued and extended his father's business and became one of the group of well-known engravers of sea charts active in Amsterdam in the middle years of the seventeenth century. In common with Colom, Doncker and Jacobsz he published a pilot guide, the Zee-Spiegel, basing it on plates obtained from Jacobsz. This went through many editions in different languages under the startling titles so popular at the time. In addition to publishing his Zee-Spiegel in the usual Parts 1 and II (Europe and Atlantic coasts) and Part III (Mediterranean) he broke new ground in preparing Parts IV and V, covering charts and sailing directions for the coasts of the West Indies and West Africa. The later editions of the Zee Atlas were published by his widow who eventually sold the publishing rights of the Atlas and of the Zee-Spiegel to Jacobus Robijn.

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