!!!Fligely, August von

Fligely, August von, b. Janow (Poland), Sept. 26, 1810, 
d. Vienna, April 12, 1879, cartographer, Field Marshal Lieutenant, 
1853-1872 director of the military geographical institute in Vienna. 
Heralded a new era in Austrian cartography and initiated the (3rd) 
topographical survey, which served for the compilation of a systematic 
special map of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1869. F. is known as 
the founder of the theory of arc measurement and modernized the 
technique of drawing maps. Cape F. in Franz-Joseph-Land and the 
F.-fjord in Greenland are named after him.

!Literature
OeBL, NDB.



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