![]() After the failed Polish insurrection against Russia, he was sentenced to death in absentia and fled to Besançon in France. From 1828 to 1830 he completed his military service, served in the Russian general staff and was promoted to captain. He attended the military cadet school in Warsaw and was trained in fortress construction. He had previously worked with Dufour on preparatory work for the Topographische Karte der Schweiz 1:100,000 («Dufour Map»).Ĭasimir Napoléon Alexandre Stryieński was born on September 11 th, 1804 in Białystok, Poland. The government of the Canton of Fribourg took Alexandre Stryieński under contract for this task. The cantons were commissioned to carry out topographic surveys of their territories on the basis of this official survey. The government of the Canton of Fribourg was pleased to learn that Guillaume-Henri Dufour, who was elected Quartermaster General in 1832, decided to carry out a national trigonometric survey, the so-called Triangulation primordial e. However, these maps were too inaccurate and not detailed enough, neither for military purposes, nor for road construction or for use in schools. 1:120,000, published 1796–1802 by Johann Rudolf Meyer, Johann Heinrich Weiss and Joachim Eugen Müller, as well as the Karte der Schweiz at 1:200,000, published 1835/36 by Joseph Edmund Woerl. Topographic surveys based on a uniform triangulation, as was the case in France, had not been realized yet, due mainly to the federalist system in Switzerland.Īmong the best representations at the time are two maps covering the territory of Switzerland which showed the Canton of Fribourg at a medium scale: the Atlas Suisse at approx. From the published texts, we quote, with the consent of the author, a summary of the merits and biography of Aleksander Stryjeński.Īlexandre Stryieński, Topographer and Cartographer (1804–1875)Īt the beginning of the 19 th century, topographic maps of the Canton of Fribourg – like for most of the other cantons – were rather inaccurate. This carefully published brochure, edited by Marino Maggeti and Hans-Ula Feldman, recalls the importance of Aleksander Stryjeński’s work for the topography of Switzerland and his merit as a cartographer. 62 was entirely devoted to the figure of Aleksander Stryjeński.
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