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Died 27 April 1848, Prague, Czech Republic | ||
Josef Jüttner (12. 9. 1775 Bernartice – 27. 4. 1848 Prague) was a cartographer, Austrian army general and the author of the first exact plan of Prague, based on geodetic measuring.
Life
Jüttner studied at the gymnasium in Bíla Voda near Javorník. In 1793 he entered the Austrian army, between 1794–95 he fought against France. The years 1799–1800 he spent as a soldier of the artillery in Ingolstadt, where he had lectures on mathematics and physic in the Jesuit University .
From 1801 Jüttner taught in Prague.
The etching of the plan was by Prague's graphic master Josef Alois Drda, letters were made by František Alois Mussil. In 1818 Franz Anton von Kolowrat-Liebsteinsky carried for edition of the plan in a high number and good quality under the title Grundriß der königlichen Hauptstadt Prag in a scale of 500 wiennese lots (60 lots = 1 finger).