- Heinrich Berghaus
Heinrich Berghaus (
May 3 ,1797 –February 17 ,1884 ) was a Germangeographer .Berghaus was born at
Kleve . He was trained as a surveyor, and after volunteering for active service under General Tauentzien in 1813, joined the staff of the Prussian trigonometrical survey in 1816. He carried on a geographical school atPotsdam in company withHeinrich Lange ,August Heinrich Petermann , and others, and long held the professorship ofapplied mathematics at theEauakademie . He died at Stettin (Szczecin) onFebruary 17 ,1884 .Berghaus is most famous in connection with his cartographical work. His greatest achievement was the "Physikalischer Atlas" (Gotha, 1838–1848), in which work, as in others, his nephew Hermann Berghaus (1828–1890) was associated with him. He had also a share in the re-issue of the great Stieler "Handatlas" (originally produced by
Adolf Stieler in 1817–1823, see:Stielers Handatlas ), and in the production of other atlases.Berghaus's written works were numerous and important, including "Allgemeine Länder- und Völkerkunde" (Stuttgart, 1837–1840), "Grundriss der Geographie in fünf Büchern" (Berlin, 1842), "Die Völker des Erdballs" (Leipzig, 1845–1847), "Was man von der Erde weiß" (Berlin, 1856–1860), and various large works on Germany. In 1863 he published "Briefwechsel mit Alexander von Humboldt" (Leipzig).
The island in
Franz Josef Land known as Ostrov Bergkhauz (Остров Бергхауз), was named after Heinrich Berghaus.ee also
* Web archive of the great German Hand-Atlases. Berghaus Physikalischer Atlas online: [http://www.handatlas.de/ handatlas.de]
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