Karol de Perthées
Karol Herman de Perthées (14 January 1740 – 21 November 1815) was a cartographer.[1]
Life[]
He was born in Dresden, the illegitimate son of Herman Karl von Keyserling. In 1764 he was appointed court geographer and map-maker to Stanisław August Poniatowski, colonel of the Polish royal army. He produced a series of 1: 225,000 scale maps of the provinces of the former Republic of Poland, with five of them published in Paris, along with a hydrographic map of Poland (Carte hydrographique de Pologne) in 1809.[2]
He was ennobled in 1768[3] and moved to Vilnius in 1798, where he lectured on cartography, died and was buried (in the city's Protestant Cemetery).
References[]
- ^ (in Polish) Encyklopedia powszechna PWN, volume 3, Warszawa, 1974
- ^ (in Polish) Zarys Historii Kartografii, Sirko Mieczysław, Lublin, 1999
- ^ (in Polish) Jarosław Gdański, Mariusz Machynia, Czesław Srzednicki, Kamil Stepan, Wojsko Koronne. Formacje Targowicy, szkolnictwo wojskowe. Varia, Uzupełnienia, Kraków 2003, p. 105.
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