Christian Gottlieb Reichard
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Christian Gottlieb Reichard (26 June 1758- 11 September 1837) was a German cartographer who was born in Schleiz in Thuringia. He studied law in Leipzig and subsequently became a city official in Bad Lobenstein.
Reichard is best known for his collaboration with Adolf Stieler (1775-1836) on Stieler's Handatlas, which was a 50-map project that was published between 1817 and 1823. Other important geographical works by Reichard include:
- Atlas Des Ganzen Erdkreises in der Central Projection (1803 rare North Polar projection) [1]
- Charte von Nord America: nach den neuesten Bestimmungen und Entdeckungen (Weimar, 1804)
- Map of the World after Mercator's projection; 1825 (4 parts)
- Orbis terrarum antiquus; 1824 (Atlas of the Antique World)
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