Editing Johann Friedrich Endersch

'''Johann Friedrich Endersch''' (25 October 1705 – 28 March 1769) was a [[Germans|German]] [[cartographer]] and [[mathematician]]. Endersch also held the title of Royal Mathematician to King [[Augustus III of Poland]]. 
[[Image:Warmia1.jpg|thumb|350px|Endersch' 1755 map of Warmia]]

==Life==
Endersch was born in [[Königsee|Dörnfeld an der Heide]], [[Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt]], [[Thuringia]], but lived most of his life in [[Elbing]] (Elbląg), [[Royal Prussia]]<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=WPhbOVW9BCoC&dq=danzig+patrician+families&pg=PA190 Urban Societies in East-Central Europe], page 190-191, Jaroslav Miller 2008</ref> in the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]].<ref>Daniel Stone,''A History of East Central Europe'', University of Washington Press, 2001, p. 30, {{ISBN|0-295-98093-1}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=LFgB_l4SdHAC&dq=%22Royal+prussia%22+Poland+1466+Elbl%C4%85g&pg=PA30 Google Books]</ref>

In 1755 Endersch completed for Imperial [[Prince-Bishop]] [[Adam Stanisław Grabowski]] (''Celsissimo ac Reverendissimo S. Rom. Imp. Principi Domino Adam Stanislao in Grabowo Grabowski Episcopo Warmiensi et Sambiesi, Terrarum Prussiae Praesidis ...'') a map of [[Warmia]] titled ''Tabula Geographica Episcopatum Warmiensem in Prussia Exhibens''. The map, detailing the towns of [[Warmia]] (Ermland), was commissioned for the court of [[Holy Roman Emperor]] [[Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor|Francis I]].

Endersch also made a copper [[etching]] that depicted a [[galiot]] that had been built in Elbing in 1738 and was named ''D' Stadt Elbing''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hans-pfau-elbing.de/51601.html|title = Hans-pfau-elbing.de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.elblag-moje-miasto.pl/statek.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=2008-12-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110127223551/http://www.elblag-moje-miasto.pl/statek.htm |archive-date=2011-01-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ([[German language|German]] for "City of Elbląg").

==Notes==
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== External links ==
*[http://www.domwarminski.pl/images/stories/warmia_regionem/mapy_historyczne_tabula_geografica_w.jpg Map of Warmia by Endersch] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160122215144/http://www.domwarminski.pl/images/stories/warmia_regionem/mapy_historyczne_tabula_geografica_w.jpg |date=2016-01-22 }}

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