Johann Karl Mare

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Johann Karl Mare , actually Jean-Charles Maré , (born December 21, 1772 or December 17, 1773 in Berlin ; † August 15, 1835 there ) was a German map engraver and publisher .

life and work

Jean-Charles Maré was the youngest child of the Huguenot screen maker Jean-Antoine Maré († 1799) and his second wife Anne Morel or Maurel. He incorporated his French name into German around 1809.

In the 1790s, Maré was trained as a copper engraver by Daniel Berger at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin. His oldest surviving work is from 1793. Later he received lessons in card cutting from Karl Jäck . In 1804, Maré became known for his large-format, four-sheet city ​​map of Berlin, which was reprinted numerous times over the next two decades. He then worked with Jäck and others on various mapping projects, for example in East Prussia .

At the time of the French occupation of large parts of Germany and in the run-up to Napoleon's Russian campaign in 1812 , Mare prevented the French from falling into the hands of important Prussian maps, for which he was awarded the 3rd Class Red Eagle . On March 30, 1812 he was appointed "Professor of Geographical Arts"; from 1812 until his death he was also a member of the Prussian Academy of the Arts, section for the fine arts. In 1825 he published a map of Germany .

On August 4, 1835, Mare, known as a royalist - he had dedicated some of his cards to monarchs such as Charles X of France - unexpectedly got caught in a popular uproar in the course of which he suffered a serious head injury, of which he died eleven days later. Of his seven children from his second marriage to Henriette Karoline Antoinette, born on January 14, 1803, Bimbé (1784–1867) took over the business by his second son Karl Eduard Louis Mare (1805–1841).

Mare was a Freemason and belonged to one of the three old Prussian grand lodges in Berlin.

literature

  • Werner Grasediek: The map author Carl Maré , in: Dieter Ahrens et al .: Trier and its surroundings in the map by Carl Maré from 1819 , Trier 1983
  • NN: Jean Charles Mare , in: Neuer Nekrolog der Deutschen, 1835, Second Part , Weimar 1837, p. 1200 ff. ( Online version )
  • Franz Reitinger: The cartographer as an earth catfish. On a "physical" map by the Berlin map maker Johann Karl Mare , in: Cartographica Helvetica, issue 27, January 2003, pp. 13–26 ( doi : 10.5169 / seals-14116 )

Web links

Commons : Karl Mare  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Reitinger: The cartographer as Erdenwaller. On a "physical" map by the Berlin map maker Johann Karl Mare , p. 13
  2. ↑ a b Obituary for Jean Charles Mare , In: Neuer Nekrolog der Deutschen, 1835, Second Part , Weimar 1837, p. 1200
  3. ^ A b Franz Reitinger: The cartographer as Erdenwaller. On a "physical" map by the Berlin map maker Johann Karl Mare , p. 25, FN 4
  4. ^ Franz Reitinger: The cartographer as Erdenwaller. On a "physical" map by the Berlin map maker Johann Karl Mare , p. 17
  5. ↑ Short biography at the Academy of Arts
  6. ^ Franz Reitinger: The cartographer as Erdenwaller. On a "physical" map by the Berlin map maker Johann Karl Mare , p. 23
  7. ^ Franz Reitinger: The cartographer as Erdenwaller. On a "physical" map by the Berlin map maker Johann Karl Mare , p. 25
  8. ^ Franz Reitinger: The cartographer as Erdenwaller. On a "physical" map by the Berlin map maker Johann Karl Mare , p. 19
personal data
SURNAME Mare, Johann Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maré, Jean-Charles (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engraver and cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1835
Place of death Berlin