GERMAR, ERNST FRIEDRICH: MAP OF DALMATIA AND DUBROVNIK AREA

Ernst Friedrich Germar, German entomologist, traversed, in 1811, the Croatian coast from Rijeka to Dubrovnik. He described his journey, the insects he had collected (about 500 species), some other animals and minerals in his travel-record book entitled Reise nach Dalmatien und in das Gebiet von Ragusa (Travelling across Dalmatia and Dubrovnik area. The professionals stress that almost every fifth out of identified species was new for Dalmatia and that Germar was the first educated entomologist that collected insects in Dalmatia. The map of Dalmatia and Dubrovnik area was enclosed to Germar's travel-record book. Although enclosed just for the reader’s information, the map was based to a large degree on the earlier map by Alberto Fortis enclosed to the 1774 edition of his travel-record book «Travel throughout Dalmatia». In fact, as the whole Germar's travel and his book of travels were  inspired by the earlier travel through Dalmatia made by Fortis and the influence of the latter’s map on Germar representation of the itinerary he followed while travelling across the same area is also obvious. The map shows the area reaching as far north as Rijeka and as far south as Dubrovnik. Besides the itinerary, the map contains the representation of landforms, shown by means of roughly drawn molehills, and the network of rivers. A mileage scale is expressed in German miles.