Croatian explorer Dragutin Lerman (1863-1918) and his contribution in the mapping of Central Africa (CROSBI ID 541768)
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Slukan-Altić, Mirela
engleski
Croatian explorer Dragutin Lerman (1863-1918) and his contribution in the mapping of Central Africa
Dragutin Lerman was a Croatian explorer and cartographer who worked in Congo from 1882 till 1896 as a member of the expedition of famous explorer Henry Morton Stanley. He was particularly prominent in the exploring and mapping of the province of Kwango Oriental (today southwest DR Congo) where Lerman discovered and mapped a complex hydrographical net with numerous waterfalls (one of them holds his name). He worked along the south Congo borderline so he was also meritorious for the establishing and demarcation of the Congo-Angolan border. During his fieldwork, Lerman kept a diary and made numerous sketches of this part of Congo, which was in a cartographical sense, till then almost completely unknown. His contribution in the mapping of the hydrographical net and of the numerous native settlements, which we can find in his sketches for the very first time, placed Lerman among the most important Stanley’ s cartographers in the south-western Congo. Dragutin Lerman's discoveries completely changed the up-to-then cognition about this part of Congo. Cartographical data, which he noted for the first time, will be included in all future official maps of Congo. In this paper, Lermans's original sketches will be presented along with printed maps based on the results of his filed work. We will also evaluate his contribution in the mapping of Central Africa.
Dragutin Lerman; hisitory of exploration; Kongo; colonial cartography
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2008.
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Proceedings of the Symposium "Shifting Boundaries : History of Cartography in the 19th and 20th centuries"
Liebenberg, Elri ; Coolier, Peter
Commission on the History of Cartography of the International Cartographic Association
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Shifting Boundaries : History of Cartography in the 19th and 20th centuries
predavanje
10.09.2008-12.09.2008
Portsmouth, Ujedinjeno Kraljevstvo