Prixner, Gottfried
Gottfried Prixner (1746 - October 19, 1819) was an Austrian copperplate engraver and draughtsman. A product of the Habsburg realms in Central and Eastern Europe, he worked at various points in Vienna, Lviv, Pressburg (Bratislava), and Pest. He engraved a wide range of works, especially portraits, building and city views, and maps, including Joseph Liesganig's 'Regna Galicia, et Lodomeriae' and Janos Lipszky's 'Mappa Generalis Regni Hungariae' (1808).
Most Important Map of of the Polish-Ukraine Border Kingdom.
Regna Galicia, et Lodomeriae Josephi II et M. Theresiae Augg. iussu methodo astronomico-trigonometrica, nec non Bukovina geometrice dimensa...
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This is the 1790 first edition of Joseph Liesganig's seminal and massive map of Galicia, a territory roughly conforming to the modern border between Poland and Ukraine. The region, which had been granted to the Habsburgs in the First Partition of Poland, was virtually unmapped using modern methods before Liesganig and his team spent months preparing the present work, making it one of the most important maps of Eastern Europe of the era. (more details)