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Digital Image: 1730 Strahlenberg Map of Russia, Siberia, and Asian Arctic
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Title
Nova Descriptio Geographica Tattariae Magnae Tam Orientalis Quam Occidentalis In Particularibus Et Generalibus Territoriis Una Cum Delineatione Totius Imperii Russici Imprimis Siberiae Accurate Ostensa.
1730 (undated) 25.5 x 39 in (64.77 x 99.06 cm) 1 : 7333333
1730 (undated) 25.5 x 39 in (64.77 x 99.06 cm) 1 : 7333333
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Cartographer S
Philipp Johann von Strahlenberg (October 6, 1677 - September 7, 1747), aka Philip Johan Tabbert, was a Swedish army officer of Germanic descent. Strahlenberg was born in the Hanseatic town Stralsund, now Pomerania, Germany, but then part of Sweden. Strahlenberg joined the Swedish army in 1694, being promoted to Captain in 1703. When he was ennobled in 1707, he took the name Strahlenberg. During the Great Northern War (1700 - 1721) between Russia and Sweden, Strahlenberg was captured and sent to Tobolsk, where he lived the commodious life of a noble prisoner of war from 1711 to 1721. During this time, he developed a fascination with the the geography of Siberia and studied the anthropology, languages, and customs of its indigenous peoples. He also worked as an assistant to the German explorer and naturalist Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt (1685-1735), who was then working for Peter the Great. Along with fellow Swedish prisoner, Johan Anton von Matérn, Strahlenberg dedicated himself to the composition of a large new map of Russia. Strahlenberg recommended that the Ural Mountains serve as the eastern borders of the European continent, an idea that was later approved by the Tsar. He returned to Sweden in 1722, and in 1730 he published an important book about Siberia, Das Nord- und Ostliche Theil von Europa und Asia (North and Eastern Parts of Europe and Asia), and its accompanying map. More by this mapmaker...
Johan Anton von Matérn (October 22, 1683 - December 20, 1764) was a Swedish military officer and cartographer active in the late 17th and first half of the 18th century. Matérn was born in Stockholm. He joined the military sometime around 1704, rapidly raising through the ranks. In 1708 he led a detachment to make maps of Poland, Samogitia and Lithuania. He was captured by Russia forces during the Battle of Perevolotjna (1709) during the During the Great Northern War (1700 - 1721) and, along with Philipp Johann von Strahlenberg (1676 - 1747), sent to Tobolsk, Siberia. He returned to Sweden in 1722. Matérn worked with Strahlenberg to produce a new map of Russia, which the issued in 1730. Learn More...
Philipp Jacob Frisch (1702 - December 4, 1753) was a German lawyer, painter, and map engraver based in Berlin. Frisch was the son of the ornithologist and linguist Johann Leonard Frisch. He studied painting under Samuel Gottlieb Hanrich and Wilhelm Busch. Frisch had two brothers, the Protestant priest Just Leopold Frisch, and fellow engraver, Ferdinand Helfreich Frisch. The family is best known for their production of a large and graphic book about the birds and insects of Germany, begun by Johann Leonard, but completed by his sons, and grandson, the painter Johann Christoph Frisch. Philipp Jacob Frisch also engraved Strahlenberg's 1730 map of Russia. Learn More...
References
OCLC 225686418. Hollis 990145054730203941. Bagrow, L. (Russia) II, pp.116-120, fig.49. Cordier 2713. Cox I, 194; Lowndes III, 2528.