Jacques Pervititch

Index Map of the Beşiktaş [Bechiktache] series, 1922, serving as a guide to the individual sections. Jacques Pervititch (born Jakub Pervitić; (His Croatian surname is gallicized as Pervititch, or alternatively as Pervitich.) In maps made after 1940, it is seen phonetically Turkified into "Pervitiç" .

Early life and education Jacques Pervititch was born on 17 February 1877, the first of four children to Pero Pervitić and Marianna Guljelmović, in the Croatian village of Močići, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. had their children attend French Catholic minority schools in the city. Pervititch graduated from the Ecole Saint-Pierre elementary school and the Lycée Saint-Joseph high school, the latter with distinction in 1895. Little else is known about his early life.

Pervititch Maps and career Pervititch is known for his eponymous Pervititch Maps (, properly the ), a series of highly detailed cadastral insurance maps depicting urbanised areas of Istanbul. The maps were a continuation of three previous series prepared by Charles E. Goad, an English cartographer and early pioneer of the insurance map, between 1904 and 1906. Pervititch produced a total of 243 maps over the course of his career,

Personal life Pervititch married Josephine Drossa in 1903, with whom he had three children: Marcel (b. 1903), Jeanne (b. 1907), and Henri (b. 1911). Records indicate that the family lived on Aynalı Çeşme Street in Tarlabaşı from at least 1903 to 1907, and moved to a house at Number 7 Yaver Street in Kadıköy before Henri was born. No records exist from this point onwards, until Pervititch's "sudden" death in 1945, at the age of 68, of unknown causes. He is buried at the Pervititch family grave at the Saint Albert section of the Feriköy Latin Catholic Cemetery in Istanbul.