Karl Peucker

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Karl Peucker

Karl Ernst Oscar Peucker (born June 15, 1859 in Bojanowo near Posen , † July 23, 1940 in Vienna ) was an Austrian geographer and cartographer .

Life

Karl Ernst Oscar Peucker was born as the son of the Protestant master mason Ernst Wilhelm Karl Peucker and his wife Ida Amalie Clara, née Seydel. Karl Peucker spent his youth in Breslau , where he also attended secondary school, the graduation of which was interrupted by a three-year activity in agriculture.

After studying geography and completing his doctorate at the University of Breslau in 1890, he moved to Vienna and worked as a cartographer for the Artaria & Co. publishing house . Numerous atlases and maps for schools and science were based on his designs. He participated in the administrative map of Lower Austria .

His great achievement was the use of elevation level colors for the representation of the terrain in physical maps and the development of the law of the adaptive - perspective color plastic. He published numerous writings on this topic, such as "Shadow sculpture and color sculpture". As a result, the spatial effect of the colors depends on their position in the spectrum, their brightness and their saturation. His goal was total plasticity in the map of the terrain. Through his work he played a decisive role in the expansion of cartography as an independent science.

Grave at the Vienna Central Cemetery

Peucker was buried in the Evangelical Cemetery at the Vienna Central Cemetery in Vienna.

Works

  • Shadow sculpture and color sculpture: Contributions to the history and theory of terrain representation, University of California 1898, p. 138.
  • About optical plastic in cartography, in: Geographischer Anzeiger 2, 1900, pp. 67, 94 f.
  • On the cartographic representation of the third dimension, in: Geographische Zeitschrift 7, 1901, pp. 22–41
  • Three theses for expanding theoretical cartography, ibid. 8, 1902, pp. 65–80, 154–60, 204–22
  • New remarks on the theory and history of the map image, ibid. 14, 1908, pp. 297–312
  • Luftschiffahrtskarten, ibid. 14, 1908, pp. 614–716
  • New contributions to the systematics of geotechnology, in: Mitteilungen der kaiserl. royal Geographical Society in Vienna 47, 1904, pp. 280-325, 365-420
  • Physiographics, draft of a uniform doctrine of mapping the world around us, ibid. 50, 1907, pp. 681–744
  • Terrain map and Room color series, history, theory and printing practice, ibid. 83, 1940, pp. 61–92
  • Elevation maps, studies and reviews for solving the flight map problem, in: Zeitschrift für Vermessungswesen 40, 1911, pp. 17-22, 37-62, 65-80, 85-96
  • Atlas for business schools

Honors

  • Founding member of the Austrian Society for Photogrammetry (1907)
  • Associate professor for map science (1913)
  • Member of the Austrian Advisory Board for Surveying (1925)
  • Honorary member of the Geographical Society Vienna (1927)
  • Government Council (1932)
  • Peuckerstraße in the 22nd district of  Vienna, Donaustadt , was named after him

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted from the Protestant church book Bojanowo: Protestant church book Bojanowo 1859 , accessed on June 5, 2016
  2. ^ Ingrid Kretschmer:  Peucker, Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 280 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Celebrity graves in the Simmering cemetery

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personal data
SURNAME Peucker, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peucker, Karl Ernst Oscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geographer and cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Bojanowo , Poznan
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1940
Place of death Vienna