Carl Sandreczki

[1] Carl Sandreczki, a Bavarian, studied law at Munich University.

He served as a judge under the administration of King Otto I of Greece, on the Cycladic island of Syros in the Aegean Sea.

After converting from Catholicism to Protestantism, he was appointed secretary of the Church Missionary Society in Jerusalem.

He settled there in 1851, after the establishment of the German Deaconesses Hospital  [de] in the Old City[2] (now the compound housing the Maronite Convent),[3] not far from Christ Church.

[4] Sandreczki conducted a 10-day survey in which he documented the streets, gates and buildings of the city for the Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem[2] and provided the Arabic names for locations, as well as two maps - one of the city, and one of the Temple Mount.