200th anniversary of death - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1966 - 1.80 Shilling

The anniversary of the death of the Tyrolean farmer cartographer Peter Anich marks the 200th anniversary of this year. His contemporaries admired him as "one of the foremost mathematicians of his time, a well-experienced and thoroughly experienced in all mechanical sciences," and a "happy machine inventor." Its maps are still valued today, which represent milestones in the development of cartography. Anich was born in 1723 in the small mountain village Oberperfuss, west of Innsbruck. Although he had to take over the farm, he trained on the weekend at the University of Innsbruck laboriously and tenaciously in mathematics and astronomy. Anich's first major assignment was the creation of a celestial globe for the academic study in Innsbruck. This globe is a miracle of its time and led to the next order, the creation of a globe. His main work, however, is a map of Tyrol, which he created in two parts. He finished those of South Tyrol himself, and suddenly died in the midst of the work for the North Tyrolean map. His performance is all the better given that he knows that Anich made all the instruments he used for his surveys. In the "Memorial" of the French War Archive, the Anich Card is described as "one of the best topographical works of its century". The brand image shows the portrait of Peter Anich. In the background you can see a map, a globe and books.