Cornelius Martin Wohlers

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Cornelius Martin Wohlers , also Cornelis Martin Wohlers (* 1721 or 1731 ; † December 1813 in Ochsenwerder ; ▭ December 13, 1813 at the age of 93) was a German captain and cartographer.

Life

Wohlers was an engineer captain in the service of the pilot and shore management of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. He was the last captain of the guard ship, which had been stationed at the Moorwerder Spitze ( Bunthäuser Spitze ) since around 1610 and was usually called the outrigger to the colored house . The original task of the ship was to maintain Hamburg's stacking fairness by not letting the ships loaded with merchandise eastward through the Süderelbe but forcing them to be put up for sale in the port of Hamburg . With the boom in Hamburg trade, it was no longer necessary to maintain the outdated stacking rights. The watch ship at the colorful house, manned by a captain and a crew of twelve, retained its place until the beginning of the 19th century and only served a rather useless control of the ships going to Hamburg.

In addition to that, Wohlers produced maps of the Elbe, the North Sea to Helgoland and a map showing the area from the roadstead near Lübeck to Hamburg . The cards were engraved by the engravers Franz Nikolaus Rolffsen and Thomas Albrecht Pingeling . In addition, there is a view of Detroit and a historical city ​​map of Hamburg at the time of Christianization , which Cipriano Francisco Gaedechens , however, already characterized as "completely inapplicable and worthless".

From around 1770 his son Christian Peter (Pieter) Wohlers († before 1816?) Supported him as a map draftsman and publisher.

Works

  • Accurate chart of the Elbe river from the raw bucket in the sea to the Amte Ritzebüttel etc. and the city of Hamburg to Geesthacht, with all the islands in the Elbe, and sandbanks, and signals, including buoys, according to the compas, and distance of the miles . [Approx. 1: 140,000] [Hamburg], 1774 ( deutschefotothek.de digitized version). - Anton Friedrich Büsching : criticized in his review of this Elbe map in the weekly news of new maps, geographic, statistical and historical books and things. the unreliability in the description and naming of the political conditions on land, i.e. left and right of the Elbe. This criticism is then repeated in 1776 in the Litterary Almanac of the Germans: to the year 1775: containing a systematic index of those writings which make up the literature of the said year.
  • Accurate chart of a part of the North Sea: from Helgeland to the Elbe and Weser & Jaade also the Weser river, from the key bin in the sea to the city of Bremen. As well as part from the Elbe river, from the red buoy in the sea at Cuxhaven to Ballie and Brunsbüttel; Also the Eyder and Hever currents with all the islands in the area, and sandbanks, also put tons according to the compas and distance of the miles in Accurate Latitudo = Pascaart van De Noord Zee. [Approx. 1: 200,000] [Sl] 1775 ( deutschefotothek.de digitized version).
  • Carte from the Lübeck roadstead to the Oost-See beÿ Travemünde: also the Trave river to the city of Lübeck, and the area, to the city of Hamburg on the Elbe river, also the southern and northern Elbe, with the islands and the Upper Elbe bit at Lauenburg and Lüneburg, at Elmenau-Flus, with Prospect, from the city of Lübeck = Tabula sistens nobilissimi Albis fluvii partem superiorem a civitate Hamburgensi ad Lauenburgum usque et Luneburgum Situs item territorii Lubecensis ad Travemundam Mar usque et ostium Balthici, cum fluminibus from utroque latere in Albim et mare fluentibus, et typo civitatus Lubecensis. [Approx. 1: 110,000] Hamburg 1781 ( deutschefotothek.de digitized version). - Oswald Dreyer-Eimbcke highlights the role model function of the map of the Bay of Lübeck by Johannes Mejer for this presentation .
  • Floor plan of the old city of Hamburg. 1789. (New edition: floor plan of the city of Hamburg at the time of Carl the Great, Anno 803, based on the design of the late Captain Christian Wohlers, drawn by C. Wohlers in 1789, engraved by Wolf. Hamburg 1816).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Julius Faulwasser : Wohlers, Cornelius Martin . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 173 .
  2. ^ Hermann Heckmann: Builders of the Baroque and Rococo in Mecklenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck, Hamburg. ISBN 3-345-00692-8 , p. 421.
  3. ^ Announcements from the Association for Hamburg History. 1901, p. 584.
  4. ↑ C. Wohlers del. 1789. Wolf sculp. 1816 (= Loeser Leo Wolf [1775-1840]).
  5. ↑ Cipriano Francisco Gaedechens: Historical topography of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and its immediate surroundings from its origins to the present. Hamburg 1880, p. 2.
  6. ↑ Weekly news of new land charts, geographic, statistical and historical books and things . tape 3 , 41st piece. Haude u. Spener, October 9, 1775, p. 326 ff . ( books.google.de ).
  7. ^ Litterary Almanac of the Germans: to the year 1775 ... Volume 4 . Vandenhoeck, 1776, p. 15 ( books.google.de ).
  8. ↑ 400 years of Johannes Mejer: The great cartographer from Husum (1606-1674) KomRegis-Verlag, 2006, p. 86.
personal data
SURNAME Wohlers, Cornelius Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wohlers, Cornelis Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German captain and cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1721 or 1731
DATE OF DEATH December 1813
Place of death Ochsenwerder