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"A Milestone in the History of Hungarian Cartography"

This remarkable map was the work of the surveyor, engineer, engraver, and map maker, László Vörös. 

Vörös first received wide acclaim for his role in the Hungarian Danube Mapping Project beginning in 1828. The mapping of the Danube between Buda and Pest was a high priority, because of the regular floods threatening the expansion of the two cities. 

The building of a permanent bridge connecting Buda and Pest became part of the national development movement led by count István Széchenyi. As a result of his work, Vörös was commissioned to construct a detailed and accurate map from the available topographic and hydrographic data. His large, detailed and elegant map was published in 1833, with the support of the Bridge Builder’s Union.  

The map is a remarkable amalgam of data, incorporating geographical and hydrographical information with data rich details of Buda and Pest.

Condition Description
1 map on 3 sheets : col. ; 84 x 171 cm., sheets 94 x 64 cm. or smaller.
Reference
Zsolt Gyözö Török and Domonkos Hillier: Exploring and Mapping the Danube:Reading a Hydrographical Map of Buda and Pest (1833). Exploratory interactive visualization: a 19th century map of Budapest on touch-screen museum display (Szolt, Adam, Paolo, Hillier).
László Vörös Biography

László Vörös (1790–1860) was born in Hódmezo˝vásárhely, Hungary. Due to the large family’s financial difficulties he worked as his father’s helper as a carpenter.  

Because of his poverty, he did not enroll in college until 24.   Vörös was part of a new generation of Hungarian Civil Engineers.  He studied at the Institutum Geometricum et Hydrotechnicum (founded 1782), the world’s first university-level civil engineering school in Pest-Buda.   After working as a civil engineer for a short period, he was invited to join the
survey staff of Mátyás Huszár, and from 1822 he worked as a surveyor on the Körös rivers.

Vörös worked as a surveyor, engineer, engraver and map maker for the Hungarian Daube Mapping Project beginning in 1828. The mapping of the river’s section between Buda and Pest became a priority  task because of the regular floods threatening the developing and expanding sister  cities.

Vörös was commissioned to construct a detailed and accurate map of Budapest from the available topographic and hydrographic data. His large, detailed and elegant map was lithographed by the author and was published in 1833 with the support of the  Bridge Builder’s Union.