David Alexandrovich Aitov
Dawid Alexandrovich Aitow ( Russian Давид Александрович Аитов ; born May 25 . Jul / 6. June 1854 greg. In Orenburg ; † 18th March 1933 in Paris ) was a Russian cartographer and revolutionary.
After his emigration to France in 1879, Aitow worked as a cartographer at Hachette-Verlag , where he played a key role in the atlas universel published by Louis Vivien de Saint-Martin and later Franz Schrader . Based on the results of the first general census of the Russian Empire in 1897, he published an ethnographic overview map in 1: 12,500,000 with an explanatory text.
The Aitow projection and the Hammer-Aitow projection for map display go back to Aitow .
Dawid Aitow is the father of the French rugby player Vladimir Aïtoff and the pianist Irène Aïtoff .
Web links
- Dawid Aitow ( Memento from April 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) on slovari.yandex.ru (Russian)
- Dawid Aitow on dommuseum.ru (Russian)
- Aitow, Dawid Alexandrovich in the Bio-Bibliographic Lexicon Деятели революционного движения в России , Т. 2, volume 1: А - Е, 1929, col. 10f. (Russian)
- David Rumsey Map Collection
- Ethnographie de la Russie dressée par D. Aïtoff
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aitov, Dawid Alexandrovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Аитов, Давид Александрович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian cartographer and revolutionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 6, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Orenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 18, 1933 |
| Place of death | Paris |