2017/10/02 by István Klinghammer, José Jesús Reyes Nuñez · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Geography Education and Pedagogy #Geographic Information Systems Studies #Historical Geography and Cartography
paper · doi:10.1080/00087041.2017.1400220
openalex publication_date 2017/10/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2025/11/06
The first part of this article is dedicated to the history of Hungarian school atlases to 1914. The publication of atlases for schools is dated to 1800, when professor Ézsáiás Budai created his ‘New School Atlas for elementary pupils’. For almost 90 years the school atlases were mostly translations and adaptations of foreign (e.g. German) atlases. In 1890, a talented cartographer, Manó Kogutowicz founded the Hungarian Geographical Institute, which produced school atlases for the different types of schools in Hungary. The professional quality of these school atlases was recognized by prizes won in international exhibitions. Kogutowicz laid the foundations of the current Hungarian school cartography: three of his school atlases are presented in more detail in the second part of this article, to give examples of how the pupils were introduced to the basic cartographic concepts as well as how different innovative solutions were used on the maps.