August von Fligely

August von Fligely ( born September 26, 1810 in Janow Lubelski in Galicia, now Lublin Voivodeship, † April 12, 1879 in Vienna) was an Austrian officer, cartographer, and Lieutenant Field Marshal. He was among the founders of the Central European arc measurement Commission.

August Fligely was a pupil of the Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt. In 1854 he became director of the Military Geographic Institute in Vienna. He gained great contributions to the triangulation, land survey and cartographic representation of Austria and since 1861 at the European level measurement. In the card-making, he founded the application of photogravure as they first came to perform in the new special map 1:75,000 of the Austro -Hungarian monarchy.

Retired since 1872, Fligely remained until 1875 President of the Austrian Commission degrees measurement, and died April 12, 1879 in Vienna. According to him, were named in Greenland the Cape Fligely on the 1873 discovered by the Austrian Polar Expedition Franz Josef Land and the Fligely Fjord.