Jakob Samuel Johann Scheuermann

Samuel Johann Jakob Scheuermann (* 1770 in Bern , † 1844 in Aarau ), also with the signature II Scheurmann or J. Scheurmann, an important Swiss engraver .

Life

Above all, Scheuermann played a key role in the first edition of the famous Swiss Atlas , in which the Alps were for the first time represented in a true-to-life map. Together with C. Guerin and G. Eichler, he made the copperplate engravings for this work, which represents a milestone in cartography in the 19th century.

At the instigation of and at the expense of the Aarau industrialist Johann Rudolf Meyer (1739–1813), the Strasbourg geometer Johann Heinrich Weiss (1759–1826) and, from 1788, the Engelberg topographer Joachim Eugen Müller (1752–1833) took care of the trigonometric recordings . The new sheets in vertical, only exceptionally in oblique lighting and in hatching style, signified the transition to modern cartography in Switzerland and quickly replaced all previous maps.

Through this work Scheuermann gained "all of a sudden wide recognition and reputation." (C. Brun, Switzerland. Artist Lexicon 3, 1913). Scheuermann then carried out a large number of different maps, plans and panoramas, including 19 “Maps of the Swiss Cantons”, which were published in the Helvetic Almanac from 1804 and were bound by Orell Füssli & Comp in 1822 as an Atlas of Switzerland. Like his son Jakob Emanuel, he worked for the panorama draftsman and map publisher Heinrich Keller in Zurich. He engraved his famous first “ Panorama from Rigi Mountain” in copper. There are also numerous vignettes from his workshop in editions of contemporary literature (including Bürklin's "Exquisite Poems, For the Best of the Unfortunate Swiss", 1800).

literature

• A. Schumann:  Scheuermann, Jakob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 142 f.