Henry Lange

Karl Julius Heinrich ( Henry) Lange ( born April 13, 1821 in Stettin, † August 30, 1893 in Berlin) was a German cartographer and writer.

Life

Karl Julius Heinrich ( Henry) Long, son of a secret Justice and Court of Appeal Council, completed his professional training at the famous Kartografenschule by Heinrich Berghaus in Potsdam. On the recommendation of his teaching Lord, he was in 1844 for three years, employees at the first Physical Atlas of the Scottish geographer Alexander Keith Johnston, Edinburgh. After his return in 1847 he worked in Berlin as a freelance cartographer for numerous publishers and researchers, including Alexander von Humboldt, Carl Ritter, Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, Heinrich Barth, E. von Bunsen and Heinrich Kiepert. Following a stint at the publisher F. A. Brockhaus in Leipzig, for which he should build a cartographic department 1855-1859, he turned back cartographic commission work on and worked increasingly as a writer for specialists such as family magazines with a focus on biographical articles and reports on research trips. His last professional position was in 1868 the Royal Statistical Office in Berlin, where he held the position of a plan chamber inspector from 1871 until his retirement in 1891.

Services

Among his varied works include not only scientific maps supplements and traveling atlases, Bible atlases and maps of Saxony and North America as well as for industrial and commercial geography. His most popular works are attributed to Schulkartografie that he executed for the publisher of George Westermann since 1849. He completed after the death of the original arranger Theodor Freiherr von Liechtenstern first newest school atlas for lessons in geography for secondary schools and attended by 90 runs through to 1892 for the necessary revisions. It was followed by various public school atlases, of which achieved the highly successful New People's school atlas over all parts of the world from 1871 to Henry Long death over 230 runs with more than 2.4 million copies in print.

Awards and honors

• Grand Prize Medal for Art and Science
• Corresponding member of geographical societies in Vienna, Paris and Darmstadt
• 1857 Honorary Doctor of the University of Jena Long appointed a corresponding member
• 1854 Professor
• Red Eagle Order 4th class
• The Crown, 3rd Class
• The discovered on the first German expedition to the Arctic island Langeøya, one of Bastian Islands in the Hinlopen Strait ( Spitsbergen ) is named after Henry Lange.