Jacques Pervititch
{{Short description|Urban cartographer of Istanbul insurance maps from 1922 to 1945}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Jacques Pervititch
| image = Jacques Pervititch.png
| caption = The only extant photograph of Jacques Pervititch
| birth_name = Jakub Pervitić
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1877|02|17|df=y}}
| birth_place = Močići, Austria-Hungary
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1945|11|13|1877|02|17|df=y}}
| death_place = Istanbul, Turkey
| resting_place = Pervititch family grave, Saint Albert Section, Feriköy Latin Catholic Cemetery, Istanbul, Turkey
| alma_mater = Lycée Saint-Joseph, Istanbul
| known_for = Insurance maps of Istanbul
| spouse = Josephine Drossa (married 1903)
| children = 3
| signature = Ekran Resmi 2023-11-13 22.11.54.png
}}
File:Bechiktache - Réduction exacte au 1-2400, servant d'Index au Grand Plan Cadastral (1-600) - J. Pervititch - btv1b10100644n.jpg [Bechiktache] series, 1922, serving as a guide to the individual sections.]]
Jacques Pervititch (born Jakub Pervitić;{{efn|His Croatian surname is gallicized as Pervititch, or alternatively as Pervitich. In maps made after 1940, it is seen phonetically Turkified into "Pervitiç" ({{IPA|tr|pæɾ.ˈvi.titʃ}}).}} 17 February 1877 – 13 November 1945) was a Croatian-born Turkish cartographer and topographical engineer. Pervititch is best known for his series of insurance maps of Istanbul, produced from 1922 to his death in 1945.{{Cite journal |last=Sabancıoğlu |first=Müsemma |title=Jacques Pervititch and his Insurance Maps of Istanbul |url=http://www.levantineheritage.com/pdf/Jacques-Pervititch-Musemma-Sabancioglu-2003.pdf |journal=Dubrovnik Annals |volume=7 |pages=89–98 |via=ResearchGate}}
Early life and education
Jacques Pervititch was born on 17 February 1877, the first of four children to Pero Pervitić and Marianna Guljelmović, in the Croatian village of Močići, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was raised in a Catholic family who, having moved to Istanbul in 1880,{{Cite web |last=www.bibliopolis.com |title=Irak by Jacques PERVITITCH, Jakub PERVITIĆ on Martayan Lan |url=https://www.martayanlan.com/pages/books/11142/jacques-pervititch-jakub-pervitic/irak?soldItem=true |access-date=2023-11-14 |website=Martayan Lan |language=en-US}} had their children attend French Catholic minority schools in the city. Pervititch graduated from the Ecole Saint-Pierre elementary school and the Lycée Saint-Joseph high school, the latter with distinction in 1895. Little else is known about his early life.{{Cite web |title=Jacques Pervititch (188.-19..) |url=https://data.bnf.fr/14444768/jacques_pervititch/ |access-date=2023-11-14 |website=data.bnf.fr |language=en}}
Pervititch Maps and career
Pervititch is known for his eponymous Pervititch Maps ({{Langx|tr|Pervititch Haritaları}}, properly the {{Langx|fr|Plan cadastral d’assurances de la ville de Constantinople|label=none}}), a series of highly detailed cadastral insurance maps depicting urbanised areas of Istanbul. The maps were a continuation of three previous series prepared by Charles E. Goad, an English cartographer and early pioneer of the insurance map, between 1904 and 1906. Like Goad, Pervititch was employed by the Syndicate of Fire Insurance Companies Operating in Constantinople, founded in 1900 by a group of insurance companies which had been established in the aftermath of the Great Fire of Beyoğlu in 1870.{{Cite web |last=Pérouse |first=Jean-François |date=2019 |title=The fire insurance maps of Istanbul by Ch. E. Goad and J. Pervititch |url=https://heritage.bnf.fr/bibliothequesorient/en/fire-insurance-maps |access-date=2023-11-14 |website=heritage.bnf.fr}}{{Cite journal |last=Şen |first=Alper |date=September 2020 |title=Comparison of Past and Present Maps of Istanbul Historic Peninsula in GIS, Based on the Insurance Maps of Jacques Pervititch |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356718651 |journal=E-Perimetron |volume=15 |issue=3 |pages=183–198 |via=ResearchGate}}{{Cite web |title=Jacques Pervititch gözünden İstanbul'un Mezarlıkları araştırması! |url=https://www.emlaktasondakika.com/guncel/jacques-pervititch-gozunden-istanbul-un-mezarliklari-arastirmasi-47642.html |access-date=2023-11-14 |website=www.emlaktasondakika.com}} Pervititch produced a total of 243 maps over the course of his career,{{Cite web |title=Places We Lived - Pervititch Maps |url=https://www.2mi3museum.com/pervititchmaps |access-date=2023-11-14 |website=2mi3museum |language=en}} the high level of detail and consistency of which have rendered them a primary source for urban historians of Istanbul.
File:4 Bechiktache - Plan cadastral d'assurances - J. Pervititch - btv1b10100653m.jpg [Bechiktache] series, 1922, showing Serencebey.]]
Pervititch is only known to have produced one map outside of the Istanbul insurance map series.
Following his death, a shorter series of insurance maps were produced by Suat Nirven between 1946 – 1950, intending to complete Pervititch's unfinished work.{{Cite web |date=2021-09-03 |title=Beyoğlu Arşivi – Haritalar {{!}} Şehir Planlama Müdürlüğü |url=https://sehirplanlama.ibb.istanbul/beyoglu-arsivi-haritalar/ |access-date=2023-11-14 |website=sehirplanlama.ibb.istanbul |language=tr}}
Personal life
Pervititch married Josephine Drossa in 1903, with whom he had three children: Marcel (b. 1903), Jeanne (b. 1907), and Henri (b. 1911). Records indicate that the family lived on Aynalı Çeşme Street in Tarlabaşı from at least 1903 to 1907, and moved to a house at Number 7 Yaver Street in Kadıköy before Henri was born. No records exist from this point onwards, until Pervititch's "sudden" death in 1945, at the age of 68, of unknown causes. He is buried at the Pervititch family grave at the Saint Albert section of the Feriköy Latin Catholic Cemetery in Istanbul.
See also
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References
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Bibliography
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- {{Cite book |last=Sabancıoğlu |first=Müsemma |title=Jacques Pervititch Sigorta Haritalarında İstanbul |publisher=Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı - AXA Oyak |year=2000 |isbn=979-9757306732 |location=Istanbul |language=tr |trans-title=Istanbul in the Insurance Maps of Jacques Pervititch}}
- {{Cite book |last=Öner |first=Erhan |title=A Journey Through Maps from the Ottoman World to the Republic of Turkey from Constantinople to Istanbul: Between the 15th and the 20th centuries, the Cartographic Collection of Erhan Öner |publisher=Eren Yayıncılık |year=2016 |volume=4 |isbn=978-9756372586 |location=Istanbul |language=en}}
- {{Cite thesis |last=Yeltekin |first=Erman |title=Şişli bölgesine ait tarihi Pervititch sigorta haritalarının planimetrik doğruluklarının incelenmesi ve bölgedeki alansal değişimin irdelenmesi üzerine bir çalışma / A study on the examination of planimetric accuracy of historical Pervititch insurance maps of Şişli region and the evaluation of the areal change in the region |degree=Masters |publisher=Istanbul Technical University |url=https://tez.yok.gov.tr/UlusalTezMerkezi/TezGoster?key=Mir2lXQK1dkmQ9Ige3PZbidix5jC7h7BL4ZvsQI3EH1iRPrH4d6G3SBM2rDDNSsE |language=tr}}
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External links
{{Commons category|Jacques Pervititch's maps of Istanbul}}
- [https://archives.saltresearch.org/handle/123456789/1824 Jacques Pervititch Archives] at Salt Research
- Category:Jacques Pervititch's maps of Istanbul in Wikimedia Commons
- [https://gallica.bnf.fr/services/engine/search/sru?operation=searchRetrieve&exactSearch=false&collapsing=true&version=1.2&query=%28%28dc.creator%20all%20%22Goad,%20Charles%20E.%20Fonction%20indéterminée%22%20or%20dc.contributor%20all%20%22Goad,%20Charles%20E.%20Fonction%20indéterminée%22%20%29%20or%20%28dc.creator%20all%20%22Pervititch,%20Jacques%20%28188.-19..%29.%20Fonction%20indéterminée%22%20or%20dc.contributor%20all%20%22Pervititch,%20Jacques%20%28188.-19..%29.%20Fonction%20indéterminée%22%20%29%20%29%20&suggest=10 The fire insurance maps of Istanbul by Ch. E. Goad and J. Pervititch] at BnF Gallica
- [https://katalog.ibb.gov.tr/yordam/?dil=0&p=1&q=pervititch%2C+jacques&alan=qYazarlar_txt Pervititch catalogue] of the Atatürk Library
- [http://www.istanbulurbandatabase.com Istanbul Urban Database]