Agostino Codazzi

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Agostino Codazzi

Giovanni Battista Agostino Codazzi , also in Spanish Agustín Codazzi (born July 12, 1793 in Lugo (Emilia-Romagna) , Italy; † February 7, 1859 in Espíritu Santo, today's Agustín Codazzi , Colombia) was an Italian military, geographer and cartographer .

He studied at the military school in Bologna and the Scuola di Artiglieria in Pavia . From 1810 he served in the Napoleonic Army. He is said to have participated in the campaigns in Ulm, Dresden, Leipzig, Lutzen and Bautzen in 1813/14. After Napoleon's fall, he first went to Constantinople and then traveled with his friend Constant Ferrari through Northern Europe until he returned to Italy in 1822.

In 1826 he traveled to Venezuela, where he offered Simon Bolivar his military knowledge. He was commissioned to map the area of Lake Maracaibo and the borders between Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador. The government made him a colonel and commissioned him to compile an atlas of Venezuela. He received citizenship from President José Antonio Páez . In 1842 he was accepted into the Legion of Honor . He suggested the establishment of Colonia Tovar . After Páez's fall, he fled to Cúcuta , Colombia , where he worked as a cartographer for the local government.

In 1852 he inspected Panama for the British government. In 1857 he discovered stone sculptures on the Río Magdalena . He died of malaria in a village in the Colombian mountains that was later named after him.

Posthumously

The Instituto Geográfico Militar , founded in 1935, was renamed Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi (short name: IGAC) in his honor in 1950 .

Publications

  • Resúmen de la geografía de Venezuela ; 1841
  • Resumen del diario histórico del ejército del Atlántico
  • Obras completas de la Comisión Corográfica
  • Obras escogidas: Prólogo de Enrique Bernardo Núñez

literature

  • Nicolás Perazzo, Agustín Codazzi, Alejandro Sánchez Felipe: Agustín Codazzi: 1793-1859; biografía ; 1956
  • Memorias de Agustín Codazzi
  • Communications of the Austrian Geographical Society , Volume 27, p. 163

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Maps of world: Agostino Codazzi ( Memento of October 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Codazzi, Agostino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Codazzi, Giovanni Battista Agostino (full name); Codazzi, Agustín
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian military, geographer and cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Lugo (Emilia-Romagna) , Italy
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1859
Place of death Espíritu Santo, Agustín Codazzi , Colombia