{"id":28885,"date":"2016-12-31T13:43:05","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T10:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/old-smolensk.ru\/?p=28885"},"modified":"2016-12-31T13:43:05","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T10:43:05","slug":"jerzy-czajewski-article-on-the-military-engineer-johann-pleitner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old-smolensk.ru\/?p=28885","title":{"rendered":"Jerzy Czajewski: Article on the military engineer Johann Pleitner."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">Johann Pleitner. Article and pictures by Jerzy Czajewski.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/old-smolensk.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/jerzy-czajewski-johann-pleitner_fortified-places_image1-400x401.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[28885]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-28887\" alt=\"jerzy-czajewski-johann-pleitner_fortified-places_image1-400x401\" src=\"https:\/\/old-smolensk.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/jerzy-czajewski-johann-pleitner_fortified-places_image1-400x401-300x300.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/old-smolensk.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/jerzy-czajewski-johann-pleitner_fortified-places_image1-400x401-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/old-smolensk.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/jerzy-czajewski-johann-pleitner_fortified-places_image1-400x401-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/old-smolensk.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/jerzy-czajewski-johann-pleitner_fortified-places_image1-400x401.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">\u00abJohann Pleitner was born in Nabburg (Bavaria-Ober Pfalz in Germany) to a well-off bourgeoise family. \u2026 He probably studied the art of fortification and mathematics at the University in Louvain in Belgium. At the age of 32 he joined Dutch forces of the stadholder of Holland, prince Frederick Hendrick of Nassau at the\u00a0siege of Maastricht\u00a0against the Spaniards in 1632. There he prepared drawings and plans for big etching by Salomon Savery of the famous siege. &#8230;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/old-smolensk.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/jerzy-czajewski-johann-pleitner_fortified-places_image2-400x509.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[28885]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-28888\" alt=\"jerzy-czajewski-johann-pleitner_fortified-places_image2-400x509\" src=\"https:\/\/old-smolensk.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/jerzy-czajewski-johann-pleitner_fortified-places_image2-400x509-235x300.jpg\" width=\"135\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/old-smolensk.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/jerzy-czajewski-johann-pleitner_fortified-places_image2-400x509-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/old-smolensk.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/jerzy-czajewski-johann-pleitner_fortified-places_image2-400x509.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 135px) 100vw, 135px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">The following year he was recruited by the Polish army, which was relieving\u00a0Smolensk from Russian siege. There he commanded a special 600-man regiment of sappers, which destroyed enemy works and built its own field fortifications. In the meantime he prepared drawings and plans for the next two big etching by Salomon Savery and Willem Hondius depicting the Smolensk relief. \u2026<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.71429;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/old-smolensk.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/jerzy-czajewski-johann-pleitner_fortified-places_image5-400x312.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[28885]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-28889\" alt=\"jerzy-czajewski-johann-pleitner_fortified-places_image5-400x312\" src=\"https:\/\/old-smolensk.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/jerzy-czajewski-johann-pleitner_fortified-places_image5-400x312-300x234.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/old-smolensk.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/jerzy-czajewski-johann-pleitner_fortified-places_image5-400x312-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/old-smolensk.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/jerzy-czajewski-johann-pleitner_fortified-places_image5-400x312.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>The life of Johann Pleitner is typical of a hired professional, who could get a job in any European army, shows us the opportunities for educated people to be successful soldiers of fortune regardless of nationality, faith and conviction in early modern Europe. He was underestimated as a military engineer (with the exception of king Wladyslaw IV) so as a result he had to serve mostly as a soldier. His undoubtedly great engineering abilities were not fully exploited. Detailed study of the etchings of Savery and Hondius will probably reveal something of his mastership of his favourite disciplines, fortifications and surveying\u00bb.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><em><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 Google-\u043f\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0432\u043e\u0434:<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=en&amp;tl=ru&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fortified-places.com%2Fengineers%2Fpleitner%2F\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=en&amp;tl=ru&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fortified-places.com%2Fengineers%2Fpleitner%2F<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0447\u043d\u0438\u043a:<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortified-places.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fortified Places<\/a>: &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortified-places.com\/engineers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Military Engineers<\/a> &gt; Poland: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortified-places.com\/engineers\/pleitner\" target=\"_blank\">Johann Pleitner (1600-1664)<br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">07\/05\/2013: Article on the military engineer Johann Pleitner, by Jerzy Czajewski.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u0421\u043c. \u0442\u0430\u043a\u0436\u0435:<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/old-smolensk.ru\/?p=2820\" target=\"_blank\">\u0412. \u0413\u043e\u043d\u0434\u0438\u0443\u0441, \u00ab\u041f\u043b\u0430\u043d \u043e\u0441\u0430\u0434\u044b \u0421\u043c\u043e\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0441\u043a\u0430\u00bb, 1634 \u0433.<br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/old-smolensk.ru\/?p=13291\" target=\"_blank\">A. Boya, S. Savery: \u041f\u043b\u0430\u043d-\u0432\u0438\u0434 \u201c\u041e\u0441\u0430\u0434\u0430 \u0421\u043c\u043e\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0441\u043a\u0430 \u0432 1634 \u0433.\u201d<br \/>\n<a title=\"W. Blaeu, A. Boy, S. Savery: Odsiecz Smolenska pod wodza Wladyslawa IV w 1634 r.\" href=\"http:\/\/old-smolensk.ru\/?p=28831\" target=\"_blank\">W. Blaeu, A. Boy, S. Savery: Odsiecz Smolenska pod wodza Wladyslawa IV w 1634 r.<\/a><br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/old-smolensk.ru\/?p=12630\" target=\"_blank\">\u0417\u0430\u043f\u0438\u0441\u043a\u0438-\u0437\u0430\u043c\u0435\u0442\u043a\u0438 \u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u043a\u0430: \u043e\u0431\u043d\u0430\u0440\u0443\u0436\u0435\u043d\u0430 \u043d\u0435\u0438\u0437\u0432\u0435\u0441\u0442\u043d\u0430\u044f \u0433\u0440\u0430\u0432\u044e\u0440\u0430 \u0413\u043e\u043d\u0434\u0438\u0443\u0441\u0430 \u2013 \u043d\u0435\u0431\u043e\u043b\u044c\u0448\u0430\u044f, \u043d\u043e \u0437\u0430\u0442\u043e \u0431\u043e\u043b\u0435\u0435 \u043f\u0440\u0430\u0432\u0438\u043b\u044c\u043d\u0430\u044f.<br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/old-smolensk.ru\/?p=28491\" target=\"_blank\">Jerzy Czajewski: Fortalitium Sigismundanum \u0438\u043b\u0438 \u041a\u043e\u0440\u043e\u043b\u0435\u0432\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0411\u0430\u0441\u0442\u0438\u043e\u043d.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johann Pleitner. Article and pictures by Jerzy Czajewski. \u00abJohann Pleitner was born in Nabburg (Bavaria-Ober Pfalz in Germany) to a well-off bourgeoise family. \u2026 He probably studied the art of fortification and mathematics at the University in Louvain in Belgium. At the age of 32 he joined Dutch forces of the stadholder of Holland, prince [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,39,7,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rubric-engravings","category-rubric-fortress","category-rubric-maps","category-smolensk-v-rp-vkl-1611-1654-gg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old-smolensk.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old-smolensk.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old-smolensk.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old-smolensk.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old-smolensk.ru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28885"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/old-smolensk.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28895,"href":"https:\/\/old-smolensk.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28885\/revisions\/28895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old-smolensk.ru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old-smolensk.ru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old-smolensk.ru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}