Jean-Pierre Guillaume Catteau-Calleville

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Jean-Pierre Guillaume Catteau-Calleville (* 1759 in Angermünde ; † May 18, 1819 in Paris ) was a Franco-German historian and geographer in the French service.

Life

Catteau-Calleville's family came to Prussia in 1685 after the Edict of Fontainebleau and, like other Huguenots , settled there due to the Edict of Potsdam . He himself became a French Reformed preacher in Stockholm in 1783. He later resigned from his position there and from then on lived as a geographic author and travel writer in Paris. He became known for his extensive geographical descriptions of the Baltic Sea region. The project of the extended north canal from Paris to Lübeck , which was started by French surveyors in 1813 during the French era, was a clear sign of the future importance of the Baltic Sea area already at the time of the continental barrier. Fundamental to this was the study by Catteau-Calleville, published in 1812, across the Baltic Sea from Lübeck to the port of Arkhangelsk . The idea of combining the three Hanseatic cities of Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck by adding Sachsen-Lauenburg and the Land Hadeln to a separate Hanseatic territorial state in the Rhine Confederation was rejected due to this overarching consideration. He also presented the biographies of Renée de France and Kristina von Sweden .

Fonts

  • Vie de Renée de France duchesse de Ferrare. Berlin 1781.
  • Bibliothéque Suède. Stockholm 1784.
  • Tableau gén. de Suède. 2 volumes. Lausanne 1789.
  • Tableau des états danois. 3 volumes. Paris 1802.
  • Tableau de la mer Baltique. Considérée sous les rapports physiques, géographiques, historiques et commerciaux, avec une carte, et des notices détaillées sur le mouvement général du commerce, sur les ports les plus importans, sur les monnaies, poids et mesures. 2 volumes. Pillet, Paris 1812.
    • Paintings of the Baltic Sea in physical, geographical, historical and mercantile terms. Translated from the French by Philipp Christian Weyland . Verlag des Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs, Weimar 1815.
  • History of the révolutions de Norwège, suivie du tableau de l'état actuel de ce pays, et de ses rapports avec la Suède. 2 volumes. Pillet, Paris 1818.
  • Voyage en Allemande et en South. 2 volumes. Paris 1819.
  • Histoire de Christine Reine de Suède . 2 volumes. Paris 1819.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Catteau-Calleville, Jean-Pierre Guillaume
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-German historian and geographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1759
PLACE OF BIRTH Angermünde
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1819
Place of death Paris