Leo Bagrow

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Leo Bagrow ( Russian Лев Семёнович Багро́в / Lew Semjonowitsch Bagrow ; * 23 June July / 5 July  1881 greg. In Weretje near Solikamsk ; † August 9, 1957 in The Hague ) was a Russian cartography historian .

Life

Leo Bagrow, son of the Russian military cartographer Semjon Bagrow (* 1852 in Smolensk , † 1912 in St. Petersburg ) studied from 1902 to 1903 at the University of St. Petersburg and then at the Imperial Archaeological Institute with a degree in 1904.

After the revolution in 1905 , he joined the Russian Imperial Fleet in the summer of 1905 . 1905–1906 he served as a junker in the 18th Marine Infantry Division, and then 1906–1908 in the Hydrographic Main Division in St. Petersburg. 1908–1912 joined another naval service as a non-commissioned officer in the Kronstadt department and the Siberian department ( Amur flotilla ) to work again in the main hydrographic department until 1914. When the war broke out in 1914, he returned to the Amur Flotilla and later transferred to the 2nd Baltic Department (Baltic Flotilla), where he was promoted to lieutenant in the sea in 1916 (until 1917).

In addition, Bagrow was 1916-1918 professor of shipping at the Technical School and head of the chair of history in the Geography Institute in Petrograd (until 1918).

After the October Revolution , Bagrov left Russia in 1918 to live and work in Berlin until 1945 . Bagrow acquired extensive knowledge of old maps and the development of cartography on numerous study trips through autopsy in map collections . He stimulated international cooperation and wrote 70 papers.

Bagrow founded the series Imago Mundi , which has been continued to this day, and published volumes 1 (1935) to 13 (1957). Under his aegis, Imago Mundi developed into the central forum through which the various circles of card dealers, card collectors and card historians communicated with each other and in which the foundations for the modern discipline of card history were laid.

Bagrow's main work was his history of cartography . Despite the war, he had completed the manuscript in 1943, and in 1944 the work was to be published by Safari Verlag in Berlin. However, the entire edition burned with the printing blocks in bombed Berlin.

After the end of the war , Bagrow left Berlin in May 1945 to live and work in Stockholm . The history of cartography was published in 1951. This work was translated by DL Paisey in 1960 and then appeared as History of Cartography after revision and expansion by Raleigh Ashlin Skelton (1906–1970) . This became the book Meister der Kartographie , which was published in 1963 , through back translation by Hermann Thiemke, Berlin .

Works

  • L. Bagrow: A. Ortelii (Ortelius) Catalogus cartographorum . Gotha 1928 and 1930 (PM-Erg.H. 199, 210).
  • L. Bagrow: The origin of Ptolemy's Geographia . Geogr. Annaler 27 (1945), pp. 318-387.
  • L. Bagrow: The History of Cartography . Safari-Verlag, Berlin 1951 (383 pages, 120 plates).
  • Bagrow L., Skelton RA, Paisey DL: History of Cartography . CA Watts & Co., London 1960.
  • L. Bagrow, RA Skelton: Master of Cartography , Safari-Verlag, Berlin 1963 (with 22 color plates, 118 art print plates, 79 maps in the text and biographical information on 1291 cartographers); 4th edition 1973 (with 141 art print plates and 1450 short biographies); 6th edition Berlin: Gebr. Mann , 1994. ISBN 3-7861-1732-2 .

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  • Michael Heffernan, Catherine Delano-Smith: A Life in Maps: Leo Bagrow, Imago Mundi, and the History of Cartography in the Early Twentieth Century. In: Imago Mundi. Vol. 66, Suppl. 1, 2014, pp. 44-69.
  • Alexander Volodchenko: Leo Bagrov as a naval officer in the Russian Imperial Fleet . In: Contributions to the discussion on carto-semiotics and the theory of cartography. International correspondence seminar. Vol. 13/2010. Technical University Dresden.
  • Bagrow, Leo Semjonowitsch in the Lexicon of Cartography and Geomatics on Spektrum.de , accessed on June 24, 2015.

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personal data
SURNAME Bagrow, Leo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bagrow, Lev Semyonovich (full name); Багро́в, Лев Семёнович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian cartography historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Weretje near Solikamsk , Perm Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1957
Place of death The Hague , Netherlands