Streit, Friedrich Wilhelm
Friedrich Wilhelm Streit (January 29, 1772 - June 12, 1839) was a Prussian military officer, engineer, mathematician, and cartographer. Streit began his career as an artillery officer in the Prussian military, where he honed his mathematical and cartographic skills. After leaving military service at the rank of major, he became a member of the Akademie gemeinnütziger Wissenschaften zu Erfurt and Gesellschaft für Erdkunde, one of the leading Prussian geographical bodies of the day. From 1807 to 1817 he was director of the map department of the Geographisches Institut Weimar. Over the same period, he oversaw the 'Topographisch-militairische Charte von Teutschland,' an ambitious project to survey the entirety of Central Europe on a consistent medium scale (1:180000), resulting in over 200 maps and supplements. He also published textbooks on mathematics and an English-German dictionary.
Multiethnic Heartland of the Habsburg Realm.
Charte von den Kaiserlich Oesterreichischen Ungarischen Ländern.
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This is Friedrich Wilhelm Streit's rare 1830 map of the Kingdom of Hungary and associated territories, published by the Geographisches Institut, Weimar. It displays the Lands of the Hungarian Crown, including Transylvania, Slovakia, and much of today's Croatia, in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars (1803 - 1815) as the Habsburgs adjusted to a changed political landscape. (more details)