Creator Bio
Ángel Jacob Jesurún
1824–1893
Ángel Jacob Jesurún, born in Curaçao to a prominent Sephardic Jewish family, emigrated to Venezuela at the age of nineteen. There, he became an entrepreneur and created a master plan for development of the city of Caracas. Jesurun was also a scholar, with a doctorate in political science. In 1890, he was appointed Venezuela’s consul to Panama, where he became a cofounder of a branch of the Alliance Israélite Universelle there.
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Topographic Map of the city of Caracas
Ángel Jacob Jesurún’s topographical map of Caracas, with its geometric grid, is the first map after Venezuela’s independence to be drawn and printed by a native of the city. After decades of war and…