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Revision as of 08:42, 28 August 2006 by 71.137.206.246 (talk) (m)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Friedrich Getkant ( Polish: Fryderyk Getkant, Latin: Fridericus Getkant) (1600-1666), was a military engineer, artillery lieutenant and cartographer of German origin (born in Rhineland, Holy Roman Empire).
From 1620s he worked in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, on the problems of national defence, especially those related to King Władysław IV Vasa maritime interests (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Navy).
He was one of the engineers working on fortifications at Hela (now Hel Peninsula - Władysławowo and Kazimierzowo), together with Baumeister (building master) Johann Pleitner.
Author of many plans, maps and atlases (especially of the lands near the Baltic Sea), among them a sea map, (today considered Polands first) and atlas Topographia practica conscripta et recognita per Fridericum Getkant, mechanicum (1638). Manuscript of his work covering mechanical and engineering aspects of his work was lost during the Lwów fire in 1662.
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