Fryderyk Getkant
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Fryderyk Getkant (German: Friedrich Getkant, Latin: Fridericus Getkant) (1600-1666), was a military engineer, artillery lieutenant and cartographer of German origin (born in Rhineland, Holy Roman Empire).
From 1620s he worked in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, on the problems of national defence, especially those related to King Władysław IV Vasa maritime interests (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Navy) [1].
He was one of the engineers working on fortifications in Władysławowo and Kazimierzowo at Hel Peninsula together with Jan Pleitner.
Author of many plans, maps and atlases (especially of the lands near the Baltic Sea), among them the first Polish sea map and atlas Topographia practica conscripta et recognita per Fridericum Getkant, mechanicum [2] (1638). Manuscript of his work covering mechanical and engineering aspects of his work was lost during the Lwów fire in 1662.
[edit] See also
- Eliasz Arciszewski
- Krzysztof Arciszewski
- Ernest Braun
- Kazimierz Siemienowicz
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