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Last Name Kilian
Given Name Georg Christoph
alt. Names G. C. K. ;
Marriage
Children
Year born 1709
Year died 1781 rather than 1780 as sometimes claimed
Place of death
Father's occupation
Relatives see http://personen.digitale-sammlungen.de/pnd/bsb00000273_00528-04.html
Education
Country of Activity Germany
Worked for
Patronage K. owned a flourishing bookshop in Augsburg ;
Collaborators took over some copper engravings from engravings ->Gabriel Bodenehr ;
Techniques geographical and topographical engraving ; cartographic map-making; also archaeological, architectural & historical sujets;
Sample(s) http://www.christl-schmid.de/638/schlacht-bei-gross-jaegersdorf-ostpreussen-siebenjaehriger-krieg-plan-der-bey-gross-jaegerndorf-den-30ten-augusti-alt
Archival sources http://personen.digitale-sammlungen.de/pnd/bsb00000273_00528-04.html ; www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz40929.html
Published sources ADB 15: 736-8 ; https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilian_%28Kupferstecher%29 ;
other German engraver, collector & cartographer; for his portrait see http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/08568/dokumente_html_obj67097201.html or http://www.vintage-maps.com/shop_content.php?language=de&coID=15&manID=42.
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