Erwin Raisz

Erwin Josephus Raisz
Born(1893-03-01)1 March 1893
Lőcse, Hungary
Died1 December 1968(1968-12-01) (aged 75)
Bangkok, Thailand
Alma materColumbia University (M.A.), (PhD)
Known forartful and insightful cartography
Scientific career
Fieldscartography, geography, geology
InstitutionsInstitute of Geographical Exploration at Harvard University
Olympic Peninsula and Puget Sound 1941
Armadillo Projection

Erwin Raisz (1 March 1893, Lőcse, Hungary – 1 December 1968, Bangkok, Thailand) was a Hungarian-born American cartographer, best known for his physiographic maps of landforms.

Early life and education

Born in Lőcse, Hungary (now part of Slovakia) in 1893, Raisz was the son of a civil engineer who introduced him to maps through his work. He received his degree in civil engineering and architecture from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Royal Polytechnicum) in Budapest in 1914.

Career

Raisz served in the army during World War I, and emigrated to New York in 1923. He worked for the Ohman Map Company while studying for his 1929 Ph.D. at Columbia University. He offered a course in cartography while a student, one of the first such in the United States.[1]

In 1931 he joined the Institute of Geographical Exploration at Harvard University, where he taught cartography and was curator of the map collection for 20 years. He created a significant body of work using hand-drawn pen-and-ink techniques, which during that period were largely being replaced by photo-mechanical processes and scribing. Because they were hand-drawn, his maps and graphics have a distinctive look to them, unique to his hand.

He was author of the first cartography textbook in English, General cartography (1938).

Raisz is best known for his physiographic maps, which describe landforms using his "orthoapsidal" Armadillo projection (essentially a small-scale variation on an isometric projection).[2] Created for continents, nations and states, they form a solid corpus of work whose use continues today. Raisz Landform Maps, operated by his family, continues to publish much of his work.

Later life and death

He travelled extensively for his work and died in Bangkok on December 1, 1968, en route to present a paper at the 11th International Geographical Congress meeting in New Delhi.[3]

Sources

  • Biography of Raisz on the Raisz Landform Maps web site.
  • Designerati: Cartographers - Erwin Raisz
  • Robinson, Arthur H. (March 1970). "Erwin Josephus Raisz, 1893–1968". Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 60 (1): 189–93. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.1970.tb00712.x. ISSN 0004-5608.
  • ICC-Preconference-Workshop: Atlases and Infographics, Tokyo, 2019/07/13 Erwin Raisz‘ Atlases – an early multi-method approach to cartographic communication, by Eric Losang of Leibniz Institute fur Landerkunde (Leibniz Association)

Bibliography

  • Raisz, Erwin Josephus (1938). General cartography. McGraw-Hill Series in Geography. New York; London: McGraw-Hill Book Company. LCCN 39027007..
  • Raisz, Erwin Josephus (1948). General cartography. McGraw-Hill Series in Geography (2d ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. LCCN 48009621.

References

Harvard campus map
Harvard campus map
  1. ^ Nuñez, José (13–17 June 2016). The First Physiographic Map made by Erwin Raisz (PDF). 6th International Conference on Cartography and GIS. pp. 136–144. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  2. ^ Raisz, Erwin J. (1962). Principles of Cartography. New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 181.
  3. ^ Raisz Landform Maps. Biography

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