Heinrich Berghaus

Karl Wilhelm Heinrich Berghaus ( May 3, 1797 in Kleve, † February 17, 1884 in Stettin) was a German surveyor and cartographer.

Life

Heinrich Berghaus found in 1811 as a ticket inspector for the bridge and road in the former French lip department the opportunity to train for geodesics, occurred after dissolution of the Kingdom of Westphalia as a volunteer in the army administration and came up with the corps of General Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien to the Brittany.

After the peace Berghaus first lived in Weimar, busy with cartographic work, was then (1816 ) employed as an engineer geographer at the War Ministry in Berlin, took part in the trigonometric National Survey of the Prussian state and received in 1824 the professor of applied mathematics at the Academy of Architecture, which he held until 1855. He scored 1828 Johann Jacob Baeyer et al to the patrons of the Geographical Society of Berlin.

His nephew Hermann Berghaus was a cartographer.

Work

Berghaus ' cartographic services are significant, and the number of cards is extremely large. Groundbreaking he worked through his great physical atlas ( 1st edition, Gotha 1837 to 1848, 90 sheets ), in which his collectors diligence for the first time all related to the different physical conditions of the earth united and enriched representations by his own representations. The work goes back to a suggestion by Alexander von Humboldt and should illustrate the cosmos.

In addition to this work is to mention the collection of hydrographic -physical map of the Prussian navigators (Berlin 1840 f ), a product of which he founded geographical Art School in Potsdam. Also Berghaus has delivered (1832 Stuttgart) maps to other atlases, such as the Stieler 's and Sohrschen, as well as to KFV Hoffmann's work, The earth and its inhabitants.

The movements of 1848 prompted him to issue a special Ethnographic Atlas of Germany, in particular by the Prussian state.

Also, as a writer he was a many-sided activity. He was a diligent employee of geographical journals ( eg general to Bertuch Geographic ephemeris) and published various periodicals.

Honors

1826 awarded him the University of Breslau with the appointment of Doctor of Philosophy.

Works

Atlases

  • Physical Atlas. Justus Perthes, Gotha 1837-1848 (online); 2nd edition 1849-1863; 3rd edition 1886-1892.

Monographs (excerpt)

  • General country and ethnology. 5 volumes. Stuttgart 1837-40.
  • Outline of geography in five books. Berlin 1842 (online, Google).
  • The peoples of the globe. 2 vols. Leipzig 1845-47; new edition 1862.
  • Country Book of Mark Brandenburg and Lower Lusatia Markgraftums 3 volumes. Brandenburg 1853-56. Volume 1: 1854, VI 684 pp. (online, Google) (online, ULD).
  • Volume 2: 1855, IX 650 pp. (online, Google) (online, ULD).
  • Volume 3: 1856, VI 783 p p CVIII Register corrigenda (online, Google) (online, ULD).
  • I. Department: Germany a hundred years ago. Volume 1: Leipzig 1859, 448 pages (online, Google).
  • Volume 2: Leipzig 1860, 440 pages (online, Google).
  • Volume 1:. States from baier between succession dispute, in 1778, until the kingdom of Deputations - Recess, 1803, Leipzig 1861, VI 406 pages (online, Google).
  • Volume 2: (Developments 1803-1809 ). Leipzig 1861, iv 412 pages (online, Google).
  • Volume 3: (Developments 1809-1813 ). Leipzig 1862, iv 426 pages (online, Google).
  • Volume 1 2 (online, Google)
  • Volume 3, 289 pages (online, Google)
  • Volume 4, 236 pages (online, Google)
  • Volume 5, 269 pages (online, Google)
  • Volume 6, 228 pages (online, Google)
  • Volume 7, 245 pages (online, Google)
  • Volume 8, 230 pages (online, Google )
  • Band. 9, 256 pages (online, Google).
  • Part II: Country Book of the Duchy of Stettin, Pomerania and of fire; or area of the Royal Government to Szczecin. Volume 1: Containing the circles Demmin, Anklam, Usedom- Wolin and Ukermünde. Anklam 1865, 1112 pages (online, Google) (online, MDZ).
  • Volume 2: Containing the Randow 's circle and general information about the circles on the left bank of Oder. Anklam 1865 (online, Google) (online, MDZ).
  • Volume 3: Containing the circles Greifenhagen and Piritz. Anklam 1868 (online, Google) (online, MDZ).
  • Volume 4: containing the Saziger circle insonderheit the city of Stargard. Anklam 1868 (online, Google) (online, MDZ).
  • Volume 5 Abth. 1: Containing the Eigenthums - localities of the city of Stargard and Naugarder circles from the first half. Anklam 1872, 1024 pages (online, MDZ).
  • Abth. 2: containing the Naugarder circles the second half, the general overview of the city of Szczecin circle and handouts concerning the West -OR circuits of the governmental district of Stettin. Anklam 1874.
  • Volume 1: Containing the circles principality fireplace and Belgard. Anklam 1867 (online, Google).
  • Volume 1: Containing the Greifswald district after its general conditions, as insonderheit the historical- statistical description of the town of Greifswald and the Royal College there. Anklam 1866, 1094 pages.
  • Volume 2: Containing the Greifswald district: Historical description of the individual localities, there excluding the city of Greifswald and the University. Anklam, 1868, 1232 pages (online, Google).

Editorship

  • Hertha: Journal of earthworks, peoples and States customer ( with Karl Friedrich Vollrath Hoffmann). 14 volumes. 1825-1829 (Online, University of Oxford).
  • Annals of the earth, nations and States customer. 28 volumes. Berlin 1830-43.
  • Dedicated Almanac Friends of geography. Band 1-3, Stuttgart 1837-39; Volume 4 and 5, Gotha 1840-41.
  • Geography yearbook. Band 1-4, Stuttgart from 1850 to 1852; the same continuation form Petermanns Geographical messages.
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