Johannes Müller (cartographer)

Frontispiece of Volume 10 of the Merck-worthy Remnants ... , 1780

Johannes Müller (born January 14, 1733 in Zurich ; died April 8, 1816 there ) was a Swiss cartographer and editor .

Müller, the son of a Zurich tailor, was trained at the age of 20 from 1753 to 1754 in the engineering corps of the French army in Sélestat and Strasbourg . In 1756 he was a civil engineer in Zurich, in 1785 a watch clerk, and in 1789 a lieutenant engineer. He taught mathematics and published the Zurich pocket calendar from 1759 to 1804 under his own name. From 1773 to 1783 he published the twelve-volume archaeological collection of Merck-worthy relics of antiquities in various places of the Eydtgenoschektiven ...

In addition to a large number of other works, Müller copied the plans of the Gyger map , a plan work on a scale of 1: 32,000 from the 17th century. His main work is the so-called Müller plan , which he wrote together with a handwritten commentary on 20 sheets on a scale of 1: 916 and which gives an impression of the building stock of medieval Zurich.

Works (selection)

• Remnants of antiquities worthy of note at various locations in the Eydtgenoschektiven ... , Zurich 1773–1783, doi : 10.3931 / e-rara-32521

literature

• A. Largiadèr: Engineer Johannes M., 1733–1816. In: Gesellschaft Zürcherischer Geschichtsfreunde (Ed.): Zürcher Taschenbuch 1940. Verlag Sihldruck, Zurich 1939, pp. 68–75.
• Arthur Dürst (Ed.): The Zurich city map from 1788–93. Facsimile edition, 1 CD-ROM + 1 booklet. Matthieu-Verlag, Zurich 2001.
• Samuel Wyder: Maps, plans and pictures of Zurich agriculture in the second half of the 18th century. On the two hundredth anniversary of the death of Salomon Landolt (1741-1818) and with information on geometer Johannes Müller (1733-1816). In: Zürcher Taschenbuch, NF, 139 (2019), pp. 107-160.

Web links

• Karin Marti-Weissenbach: Müller, Johannes. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .