Franz Ludwig Güssefeld travelled at a period when the map still had blanks on it, and filled some of them.
The record lists Franz Ludwig Güssefeld as German cartographer (1744-1807).
Franz Ludwig Güssefeld was born at Osterburg in 1744. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Prussia.
Seventeenth-century voyaging was commercial and Dutch-led, mapping coastlines for companies rather than kings.
He is recorded as cartographer.
The record of exploration is also a record of the people already living in the places reached.
Franz Ludwig Güssefeld died in 1807, aged 63. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Recorded as cartographer
