Luigi Visintin

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Luigi Visintin (born January 28, 1892 in Brazzano , Austria-Hungary (today in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region ), † February 21, 1958 in Novara ) was an Italian geographer and cartographer .

Life

Blackboard at the birthplace
Colloquia certificate from the University of Vienna by Eduard Brückner (1914)

Luigi Visintin first attended the state high school in Gorizia in the Austrian-Irish coastal region , where lessons were in German. He then studied geography , history and music in Vienna from 1912 to 1914 . As an Austro-Hungarian soldier on the Galician front during World War I, he was taken prisoner by Russia and was released as an Italian ally in 1916. He finished his studies in Turin in 1918 .

Visintin is known as the scientific director of the Istituto geografico De Agostini in Novara for a whole series of maps and atlases, which were also widely used beyond Italy. In 1922 his Grande atlante geografico appeared with numerous other editions. In Germany, among other things, his world atlas was published by Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag in the 1950s . From 1920 to 1958 he edited the Calendario Atlante De Agostini collection .

He was an honorary member of the American Geographical Society .

Fonts (selection)

  • Grande atlante geografico , 1922
  • Atlante Geografico Metodico , 1922
  • Atlante geopolitico universale , 1948
  • Atlante mondiale , 1956
  • Atlante Storico , 1925
  • Continenti e paesi , 1957, 4th edition
  • New world atlas . Zurich: Fraumünster Verlag, Novara, Istituto Geografico De Agostini, 1949, 3rd edition 1958
  • Goldmann's Great World Atlas . Munich: Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag 1955 (with Herbert Bayer )
  • with Eugène Th. Rimli: Nouvel Atlas Mondial Géographique et Economique de tous le pays . 2nd edition, Zurich: Stauffacher 1958
  • Globus-Jahrbuch des Deutschen Verlag: The world and its countries in political and economic representation , Deutscher Verlag - Berlin

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Luigi Visintin , at friul.net (it)