SCHLIEBEN, WILHELM ERNST AUGUST VON: CIVIL AND MILITARY FRONTIER OF SLAVONIA
Inventory number 481
Original title: OESTERREICH C. Ungarische Erbstaaten. I Königreich Ungarn. E) Provincial Slawonien. Gespanschaft 48. Veroecz 49. Syrmien III. Militaergrenze. d. von der Slawonische Grenze regimentsbezirk Brod u. Peterwardein.
Publishing year: 1825
Place of publishing and publisher: Leipzig
Format: 19 x 26 cm
Technique: Lithograph, partialy coloured boundary lines
The map is undoubtedly from a Viennese edition of the atlas, which is signed by van der Bruggen as author and publisher, which can also be seen by signing down on the left and by the year in the cartouche. According to the enlarged map of Dalmatia, Bosnia is diminished and while in the north it extends well to the Sava River, and to the east to the Drina River, in the south it stretches just south of Sarajevo and highlights an incorrect location of towns, so Konjic is southeast of Sarajevo, and Banja Luka, inexplicably, is along the southern border. The map is decorated by a coat of arms, a cartouche with the year, and a very beautiful vignette with a motif that idealizes shepherd's life.
SCHLIEBEN, WILHELM ERNST AUGUST VON
SCHLIEBEN, WILHELM ERNST AUGUST VON (1781-1839), a cartographer from Dresden, who worked as a chief district land surveyor in Leipzig. He was the first Director of the Statistical Association of Saxony, and made his career as a military officer and professor of military science. He carried out land surveys in Thüringen and collected data of the Kingdom of Saxony for statistical purposes. He published works in the field of land surveying, war history, mathematics and geography. As far as Croatian cartography is concerned, his most significant works were published in the Atlas von Europa from1829 and the Mittheilungen des statistischen Vereins für das Königreich Sachsen, which was published from 1831 to 1839.
