Philipp Heinrich Zollmann

Philipp Heinrich Zollmann (* before 1690; † December 31, 1748 in London ) was a German cartographer and scientist.

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Hydrographia Germaniae

Philipp Heinrich was the second eldest son of the "Princely Saxon Secret Council" Johann Ludwig Zollmann and Maria Catharina born. Muscle. He studied law in Leipzig from 1710 and then went to London to work for Baron von Bothmer on the recommendation of Leibniz , with whom his father was in correspondence .

On the recommendation of Robert Walpole , Zollmann applied for an office at the Royal Society in London and was appointed secretary for foreign-language correspondence in April 1723 because of his knowledge of Latin, English, French, Dutch, Italian and Spanish. On June 22, 1727 he was elected a member (fellow) of the Society and officially admitted on January 18, 1728. In 1729/30 he was in France and sent a report on fossils to London. In 1734 and 1744 Zollmann is mentioned as the Royal British Legation Secretary.

Zollmann's most famous work is the first waterway map in Germany, the Hydrographia Germaniae published by Johann Baptist Homann in Nuremberg in 1712 in the Kartographischer Verlag .

His brothers Friedrich Zollmann and Johann Wilhelm Zollmann (1697–1749) were also cartographers.

literature

• Hans Rohde: Philipp Heinrich Zollmann and his map "Hydrographia Germaniae" from 1712 . In: Hydrologie und Wasserbewirtschaftung 6, 1999, pp. 310-312.
• Digitized map Hydrographia Germaniae ; Engraving after Philipp Heinrich Zollmann