Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville
Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (born July 11, 1697 in Paris , † January 28, 1782 there ) was a French geographer and the reformer of old and new cartography . He worked as an encyclopaedist on the Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot and Jean Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert .
Life
Bourguignon d'Anville devoted himself to geographical studies at an early age, so that he was already a royal geographer at the age of 22, with which position he later connected that of a private secretary to Ludwig, Duke of Orléans .
He issued 211 cards . The most important works include:
- the large map of China, which he created based on the preparatory work of the Jesuit missionaries around Jean-Baptiste Régis in 1734 (including numerous individual sheets) and which was published by Jean-Baptiste Du Halde in his work Description de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise 1735;
- Nouvel atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie chinoise, et du Thibet (1737, 107 sheets),
- Atlas général (1737–1780, 66 sheets) and the
- Atlas antiquus major (12 sheets), including the
- Géographie ancienne abrégée (1769, 3 vol.) Heard as a text.
A re-engraving of the last-mentioned maps appeared in Nuremberg as a manual for the old description of the earth, for the use of the eleven larger Danvillian maps . 3 volumes, Nuremberg 1796–1800.
Since December 1747 he was an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg . He was elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 1773 and a member ( Adjoint geographe ) of the Académie des sciences in the same year .
His valuable map collection (consisting of 10,500 numbers) was purchased for the Royal Library of Paris (today's Bibliothèque nationale de France ).
In 1976 the lunar crater Anville was named after him.
Web links
- Literature by and about Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville in the catalog of the German National Library
- Nouvel Atlas De La Chine, De La Tartarie Chinoise, Et Du Thibet: Contenant Les Cartes générales & particulieres de ces Pays, ainsi que la Carte du Royaume de Corée , 1737, e-book of the University Library Vienna ( eBooks on Demand )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frank A. Kafker: Notices sur les auteurs of dix-sept volumes de "discours" de l'Encyclopédie. Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie Année 1989 Volume 7 Numéro 7 p. 128
- ↑ Digitization at the Göttingen Digitization Center
- ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724: d'Anville, Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed November 29, 2019 (Russian).
- ^ List of members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
- ↑ List of members of the Académie des Sciences ( Memento des Originals of June 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 133 kB)
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| SURNAME | Bourguignon d'Anville, Jean-Baptiste |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French geographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 11, 1697 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 1782 |
| Place of death | Paris |