Samuel Suchodolec

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Samuel Suchodolec , Polish also Suchodolski , later German also von Suchodoletz (* 1649 in Lublin ; † February 22, 1727 at Gut Alt-Rosenthal in Prussia ) was a Polish nobleman , mathematician , cartographer in the Prussian service and creator of the Prussian military topography .

Life

Suchodolec came from a Polish noble family. He grew up in the Andreaswalde socian colony in the Johannisburg district , which his Reformed father Nikolaus founded with Samuel Przypkowski in the Duchy of Prussia in 1666 after he fled under the protection of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg for reasons of faith in the early 1660s .

Suchodolec came to the Flemming Regiment in 1672 in Brandenburg military service . On November 8, 1679 he was employed as a geodesist and engineer in the Potsdam office. Since the spring of 1683 he was the successor of Józef Naronowicz-Naroński (1610–1678) in surveying Prussia.

Suchodolec created on behalf of the elector and his royal successors Frederick I and Frederick William I with the views of " Potstamb " the first accurate Prussian maps . These contained the first city map of Potsdam, which marked the beginning of the design of the “island” of Potsdam. The surveying work for this map series took five years. Compared to current maps, they only have a deviation of about one percent. His son Jan Ladislaus (1687–1751) supported him with the cartographic work .

In his map of the “Electorate Potstamb” (1683), Suchodolec referred to the area of ​​the Berlin suburb as the “ Postambsche [s] Stopelfeld ”. The connection to Potsdam only began at the end of the 17th century under the Great Elector.

From 1713 to 1718 Suchodolec was head of department for Lithuanian building projects. He died in 1727 on his estate at Alt-Rosenthal near Rastenburg .

Suchodolec married Elisabeth von Biberstein-Kasimirski (1658–1727) in 1682 and had three sons with her, Jan Ladislaus , Stefan Tobias (1695–1762) and Friedrich Samuel.

literature

  • Rasa Seibutytė: Lithuania Minor on the Prussian maps of the 18th century , in: Annaberger Annalen 15 (2007), pp. 89–113.
  • Jan Szeliga: Dzialalnosc kartograficzna Samuela i Jana Wladyslawa Suchodolców w Prusach w XVII i XVIII wieku , Biblioteka Narodowa, Warsaw 2004
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume XIV, page 258, Volume 131 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2003, ISBN 3-7980-0831-0
  • Hans-Martin Randacek: Samuel de Suchodoletz, cartographer and chamberlain . In: Potsdam without foreigners? On the influence of foreigners on the development of Potsdam, Potsdam 1999, p. 35

Notes / individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the GHdA Adelslexikon, only his great-grandson Gottlieb (1742–1814), deputy of the East Prussian region, was allowed to use the name of Suchodoletz with his descendants without objection .
  2. ↑ The colony with school and church was established in the village of Kosinowo .
  3. ^ Curriculum vitae from Helmuth von Strombeck: Das Prussische Kataster, in: NöV-Nachrichten 7th volume, issue 1, February 1974  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / physiomagnus.de  

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SURNAME Suchodolec, Samuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Suchodoletz, Samuel von; Suchodolski, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish cartographer in the Prussian service
DATE OF BIRTH 1649
PLACE OF BIRTH Lublin
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1727
Place of death Gut Alt-Rosenthal near Rastenburg