August Wilhelm Papen

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August Wilhelm Papen (born February 19, 1799 in Pyrmont , † December 9 or December 11, 1858 in Goslar ) was a German military engineer , geodesist and cartographer .

Life

August Wilhelm Papen was born in 1799 as the son of a retired officer. At the age of eleven he attended the Hanover Lyceum and in 1817 joined the engineering corps of the army of the Kingdom of Hanover as a cadet . Presumably he studied mathematics with Carl Friedrich Gauß (1777–1855) in Göttingen . However, there is no evidence in the register of the University of Göttingen .

In 1820 Papen was promoted to officer. He then worked for several years with surveying work in East Friesland , where he also participated in the coastal protection measures after the floods of 1825. Papen also worked as a mathematics teacher to Prince George of Cambridge (1819–1904) and as a tutor to the later Landgrave Friedrich Wilhelm von Hessen-Kassel (1820–1884). Several years of travel took him to Norway , Sweden and the Danish royal court in Copenhagen . From 1848 he took part as an officer in the Schleswig-Holstein war against Denmark .

Cartographic services

" Topographical Atlas of the Kingdom of Hanover and Duchy of Braunschweig "
Detail from sheet 49, " Braunschweig "
" Special map of the Principality of Lippe and the areas around Hameln , Herford , Höxter , Lippspringe , Pyrmont , Nieheim , Rinteln , Steinheim , Vlothow , etc. "
1824, detail

In addition to his military duties, Papen set up a topographic office in Hanover on his own initiative .

Based on the results of the land survey of the Kingdom of Hanover ( Gaußsche Landaufnahme ), which Carl Friedrich Gauß carried out between 1818 and 1826, Papen created a topographical atlas of the Kingdom of Hanover and the Duchy of Braunschweig from 1832 onwards . For this purpose he won the Hanoverian artillery lieutenant Joseph Gauß (1806–1873), the eldest son of Carl Friedrich Gauß, as an employee. Joseph Gauß had already been involved in his father's surveying work.

For the Duchy of Braunschweig Papen were provided by the then Ministerialrat Wilhelm Erdmann Florian von Thielau (1800–1865) with the field plans of the " Braunschweigische General-Landesvergabe ", which was carried out in the years 1745 to 1784. The map series, 66 sheets at a scale of 1: 100,000, was published by Papen in 1847 at his own expense with the title “ Topographical Atlas of the Kingdom of Hanover and Duchy of Braunschweig ”. The work was later also referred to as the " Papen Atlas ".

In 1855, Papen resigned from military service with the rank of " Captain " for health reasons. From 1857 he held the title of Major  a. D. In order to devote himself exclusively to his cartographic work, he founded a geographic institute in Frankfurt am Main with the cartographer and publisher Friedrich August Ravenstein (1809–1881) .

Papen's last project, a height map of Central Europe on a scale of 1: 1,000,000, was completed by Ravenstein in 1859.

Works

  • Carl Friedrich Gauß, August Papen: Overview of the triangular systems of the first order and those of the second order measured with the same order in the Kingdom of Hanover from 1821-1844 by Hofrath Gauß under his direction . Hanover 1845

Maps

  • Hanover, recorded and drawn by August Papen between 1826 and 1831, scale 1: 5000, Hornemann, Hanover 1831.
  • Topographic map of the Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe by A. Papen, K. H. Engineer-Lieutenant , scale approx. 1: 150,000, Hanover approx. 1840.
  • Topographical atlas of the Kingdom of Hanover and the Duchy of Braunschweig, based on a scale of 1 / 100,000 of the true length, based on the complete triangulation conducted by the Privy Councilor Gauss, from the large topographical land surveys and several other surveys, reduced and edited by A. Papen , Hanover 1832–1847.
  • Elevation map of Central Europe . Scale 1: 1000000, Geographical Institute by A. Ravenstein, Frankfurt a. M. 1859.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c magazine of the Architects and Engineers Association
  2. ↑ August Heinrich Petermann: Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen , Volume 5, Perthes, Gotha 1859, p. 46
  3. ↑ Scholl
  4. ↑ Torge, p. 140
  5. ↑ a b Grothenn, p. 152
  6. ↑ Grothenn, p. 158
personal data
SURNAME Papen, August Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military engineer, geodesist and cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Pyrmont
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1858 or December 11, 1858
Place of death Goslar