!!!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. %%language [Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Anguissola,_Leander|class='wikipage austrian'] %% [{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}] [{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]