Karol de Pertes (real name is Herman Charles de Pertes ) ( Polish Karol de Perthées ; January 14, 1740 , Dresden - November 21, 1815 , Vilno ) - geographer at the court of King Stanislaw August Poniatowski (from 1764) , the most outstanding Polish military cartographer of the XVIII century , entomologist . Colonel of the royal army.
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Biography
Born in a family of French Huguenots who settled in Germany. He served as artillery lieutenant of the Crown Kingdom of Poland . In 1768, the nobility was granted to him. At the end of 1783 he became a colonel in the royal army.
One of the reformers of Polish cartography. He is the author of a number of maps of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth : Sandomierz , Lublin , Plotsky , Krakow , the Principality of Siewierz and Dobrzynski lands , published in Paris in 1791–1792, printed in 1809 in St. Petersburg with the maps of the Ravian Voivodeship , as well as the hydrographic map of Poland ( Carte hydrographique de Pologne 1809 ) and others.
In 1798 he moved to Vilnius, where he died in 1815.
He was buried in the evangelical cemetery of Vilnius (abolished in 1974 and turned into a city park).
His first maps (1766) may have been burned during a fire in the Royal Castle. The second (1768) were not returned to Poland after restoration by cartographers of the USSR. Approximately one third of the maps of Perthes since 1939 are stored in the cartographic collection of the National Library of Poland.
Links
- Karol de Perthées (Polish)