POLAND

POLAND / POLSKA.

Historic maps.
Topographic map of Poland. Fragment of the Atlas geograficzny by Eugeniusz Romer (1908).
Third stamp in a set of 4, issued on 28.12.1982.
Face value: 8 Polish złotych.
Design: Jacek Brodowski (b. Kraków, 05.07.1943).
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 6,102,000 copies.
Size: 40.5 x 40.5 mm.

Catalogues
- AFA No. 2732.
- Fischer No. 2698.
- Michel No. 2846.
- Scott No. 2552.
- StampWorld No. 2847.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 2859.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 2659.

Eugeniusz Mikołaj Romer (Lwów, now in Ukraine, February 3, 1871 - Kraków, January 28, 1954) was a Polish cartographer and geopolitician, founder of modern Polish cartography. During the First World War, and having done extensive field work and completed his studies of tectonics and morphology, he settled in Vienna, where he compiled his Geograficzno-statystyczny atlas Polski ('Geographical and Statistical Atlas of Poland', 1916). He participated as an expert in the negotiations to establish the new borders of Poland and advised the Polish delegation at the Paris Peace Conference. In 1921 he founded the Polish Cartographic Institute, which was later named after him. After fleeing the German occupation of his hometown, in 1941 he was able to travel to London, where he collaborated as an expert with the Polish government in exile. He was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and other institutions, and vice president of the International Geographical Union. He also excelled as an encyclopedist. The map depicted on the stamp is reproduced from his Mały atlas geograficzny (‘Small Geographical Atlas’, 1908), one of his earliest and numerous works.

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