Johann Valentin Blaufuss

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Johann Valentin Blaufuß (born May 21, 1769 in Wasungen ; died December 20, 1850 in Weimar ) was a German surveyor and cartographer and building inspector, or Saxony-Weimar road inspector, in his first marriage the son-in-law of the cartographer Franz Ludwig Güssefeld .

Johann Valentin Blaufuß was born as the son of a forester in Wasungen in the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen . So he came into contact with forestry at an early stage and completed a corresponding apprenticeship.

Blaufuß worked at the Geographical Institute , which emerged as a topographical-cartographic department in 1791 in the Landes-Industrie-Comptoir of Friedrich Justin Bertuch in Weimar - the leading cartographic publisher in Germany - and emerged from it in 1804.

Blue foot is known in particular for the plans of Weimar or parts thereof such. B. the 1799 plan of the park on the Ilm . His plans not only had a cartographic purpose, but were also intended for the cadastre . In the years 1818 to 1822 he created the so-called Weimar original cadastre . Last but not least, this applied to maps for forestry.

He was the bearer of the Saxon-Weimar Order of the Falcons .

Web links

literature

  • Article on Johann Valentin Blaufuss in: Gitta Günther , Wolfram Huschke , Walter Steiner (Eds.): Weimar. Lexicon on city history. Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1998, p. 46.
  • Johann Valentin Blaufuss . In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen . tape 28 . Voigt, Weimar 1852, p. 802 f . ( Full text in Google Book Search).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ As director of road construction, Goethe was his direct superior.
  2. ↑ Johann Valentin Blaufuss . In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen . tape 28 . Voigt, Weimar 1852, p. 802 f . ( Full text in Google Book Search).
  3. ↑ https://www.spektrum.de/lexikon/kartographie-geomatik/landes-industrie-comptoir/3042
  4. ^ Gitta Günther , Wolfram Huschke , Walter Steiner (eds.): Weimar. Lexicon on city history. Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1998, p. 143.
  5. ↑ City map of Weimar, 1: 4,000, copper engraving, 1824. In: Deutsche Fotothek. Retrieved August 20, 2020 .
  6. ^ Map of the park on the Ilm by Johann Valentin Blaufuss 1799
  7. ↑ WEVDG: History 3. In: Artist Weimar. Retrieved August 20, 2020 .
  8. ^ To the Weimar original cadastre
  9. ↑ Maps of the Princely Saxon Lands
  10. ↑ Johann Valentin Blaufuss . In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen . tape 28 . Voigt, Weimar 1852, p. 802 f . ( Full text in Google Book Search).