Franz Ludwig Güssefeld (6 December 1744 – 17 June 1807) was a German cartographer. He is noted for his highly accurate maps which were mostly published by ''Homannsche Erben'' ("
Homann Homann is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Heinrich Homann (1911–1994), East German politician
* Johann Homann (1664–1724), German geographer and cartographer
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Heirs") in
Nuremberg
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.
Biography
Güssefeld was born in
Osterburg and already had an interest in drawing and creating maps in his youth.
When he failed to secure a position with the Prussian Corps of Engineers, he became a forester.
His 1773 map of Brandenburg was the first of over a 100 maps of his that were published by Homann Heirs.
[Seifert, Traudl, „Güssefeld, Franz Ludwig“, in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 7 (1966), S. 289 nlinefassung http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd12196695X.html] The high quality of Güssefeld's work is credited with saving Homann Heirs, a formerly famous publisher which before Güssefeld's arrival had been in an increasingly difficult position due to mismanagement.
During the final 18 years of his life, the ''Landes-Industrie Comptoir'' and ''
Geographisches Institut von Bertuch'' in
Weimar
Weimar is a city in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouri ...
also published some of Güssefeld's maps. Güssefeld died of
pulmonary edema
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in Weimar in 1807.
Gallery
File:F. L. Güssefeld, Map of North America, 1784 cropped.jpg , United States (1784)
File:Güssefeld, Karte der Braunschweigischen Lande, 1786.jpg , Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...
(1786)
File:Africa 1797, Franz Ludwig Güssefeld (4017888-recto).png , Africa (1797)
File:F. L. Güssefeld, Map of Asia, 1805 cropped.jpg , Asia (1805)
References
External links
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1744 births
1807 deaths
People from Osterburg (Altmark)
18th-century German cartographers
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