Anguissola, Leander#
b. Piacenza (Italy), May 10, 1653, d. Vienna, Aug. 30, 1720, cartographer, engineer and officer, drew maps of Vienna (1683, 1704-1706) and drew up the first plan to regulate the River Danube (1688); co-founder and director of the Academy of Military Engineering (1717).
Literature#
I. Pick, Die Tuerkengefahr als Motiv fuer die Entstehung kartograph. Werke ueber Wien, doctoral thesis, Vienna 1980.