Rhode, Johann Christoph
Johann Christoph Rhode (1713 - 1786) was a German cartographer active in the middle part of the 18th century. Rhode was a student of Leonhard Euler with whom he worked under the auspices of the Prussian Royal Academy of Sciences (Konigliche Akademie der Wissenschaften). There, in 1752, he was appointed resident geographer, where he was assigned to create a detailed German post-route map. He produced several other maps in conjunction with the Academy, most of which focused on Prussian Territories. The exceptions are a map of the North Pole (1753), this map of the Theater of the French and Indian War (1755), and Asia Minor in Antiquity (1780). Rhode's works were intended to be exemplars of Prussian cartography under the patronage of Frederick II (the Great) and were often lavishly engraved. His most important map is most likely Theatrum belli in America Septentrionali although his Neuer Geometrischer Plan der Gesammten Koniglich-Preussischen … Berlin is also similarly extravagant.
Best neutral-perspective map of the French and Indian War.
Theatrum belli in America Septentrionali. II. foliis comprehensum jussu Acad. Reg. Scient. et Eleg. Litt. exhibet I. C. Rhode Ac: Geogr. Berger, sculpsit berol.
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An important separately issued c. 1761 Johann Christoph Rhode map of eastern North America published in Berlin is considered the most important neutral perspective map of the French and Indian War (1754 - 1763). Rhode's map is little known and often overlooked by collectors, surprising as it is unquestionably the most exceptional map of the Theater of the French and Indian War published in any country other than the belligerent nations. (more details)