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Digital Image: 1746 Anderson Map of Greenland and Iceland
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Title
Nova Gronlandiae Islandiae et Freti Davis tabula : quam ex recentissimis, usque selectissimis peritiorum Navarchorum, item Dannicae missionis observationibus, relationibus atque diariis, peculiari studio.
1746 (dated) 14.5 x 11.5 in (36.83 x 29.21 cm) 1 : 7800000
1746 (dated) 14.5 x 11.5 in (36.83 x 29.21 cm) 1 : 7800000
Description
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Cartographer S
Ernst Georg Sonnin (June 10, 1713 – July 8, 1794) was a German architect, engineer, cartographer, and architect active in Hamburg in the middle part of the 18th century. Sonnin attended the Friedrich School from 1727 to 1731 and then afterwards in Halle and Jenna. His focus was initially theology, but it quickly transitioned into mathematics. Relocating to Hamburg he tutored Latina and mathematics while founding a workshop for precision scientific instruments. As a master engineer he was contracted to do restoration work on the steeples of a number of important churches. He was a member of the first German Masonic Lodge and a founding member of the Hamburg Patriotischen Gesellschaft. Sonnin was a hobbyist astronomer and dedicated himself determining the exact geographical location of Hamburg. IN conjunction with his astronomical studies he contributed to several other little known maps in affiliation with other Hamburg scholars. More by this mapmaker...
Georg Christian Grund (July 11, 1695 – February 10, 1758) was a German printer, publisher, and engraver active in Hamburg in the middle part of the 18th century. He was the sone of the German typographer Hermann Heinrich Holle. Grund was the owner of the Hamburgischer Correspondent, which he renamed Staats- und gelehrte Zeitung des Hamburgischen unparteyischen Correspondenten (State and scholarly newspaper of Hamburg's nonpartisan correspondents). Until the outset of the French Revolution, this periodical was the only reliable source in Germany for foreign news. Little is known of his life and work but he appears to have engraved maps and images for Johann Anderson's 1746 Nachrichten von Island, Grønland und der Strasse Davis. Grund was a founding member of the Hamburg Patriotischen Gesellschaft. He was survived by his daughter Sophia Maria Grund. Learn More...
Jonas Carl Frederik Washer Haas (1720 - April 10, 1775) was a Nuremberg-born artist and engraver active in Copenhagen, Denmark, in the middle to late 18th century. Haas was born in Nuremberg in 1720. After several years in Hamburg, Haas relocated to Copenhagen along with several other of his fellow artists, including Johan Martin Preisler and Carl Marcus Tuscher. In 1755, Haas was appointed official engraver for the University of Copenhagen. In addition to numerous portraits, he engraved maps for Johan Jacob Bruun's Novus Atlas Daniæand, and vignettes of Frederik Ludvig Norden's Travels. In Hamburg, he had married Anna Rosine Fritsch, the daughter of a fellow engraver, with whome he had four children. Three of his sons, Georg, Meno, and Peter were also engravers. Haas is interred at St. Peter's church cemetery. Learn More...
Source
Anderson, J., Nachrichten von Island, Grønland und der Strasse Davis (Hamburg), 1747.
References
OCLC 645249896.