!!!Kindermann, Joseph Karl

Kindermann, Joseph Karl, b. near Budapest (Hungary), March 4, 
1744, d. Vienna, Oct. 15, 1801, geographer, cartographer and 
writer. In 1768 joined the Dutch East India Company, went to South 
Africa and contributed to the "Histoire Naturelle" (1750) by 
G. L. Leclerc de Buffon. Acquainted with J. Cook. In 1774 
returned to Vienna and worked in scientific fields and in the field of 
adult education in the spirit of Josephinism. 1787-1800 head of the 
newspaper "Graetzer Zeitung". In his function of editor-in-chief of 
the "Atlas des Oe. Kaiserthums" (Atlas of the Austrian Empire) he 
published 8 maps of the Austrian lands between 1801 and his death.

!Works
Hist. und Geograph. Abriss des Herzogtums Stmk., 1779; Die 
Provinz Inner-Oe., 1789-1797 (atlas with 12 maps).


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