Cornelis Koeman

Cornelis Koeman (Wijdenes, 15 August 1918 – De Bilt, 5 June 2006) was a Dutch geodetic engineer and cartographer, famous for his work on the history of cartography.

In 1961 Koeman obtained his doctorate with a thesis entitled: Collections of maps and atlases in the Netherlands.

He based this on the book Sémiologie graphique[1] by the French cartographer Jacques Bertin, which had been published in 1967.

The idea arose as early as 1960 to compile a bibliography of all land and sea atlases published in the Netherlands until 1940.

[3] He was one of the founders in 1958 of the Cartographic Section of the Royal Dutch Geographical Society (KNAG), which became an independent Netherlands Association for Cartography (NVK) in 1975.

He was one of the representatives of the Netherlands at the founding meeting of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) in Bern in 1959, was chairman of the ICA Standing Commission on Education and Training from 1972 to 1980, and as such was jointly responsible for the production of the international cartography textbook Basic Cartography.