Biography

He was born at Stettin. He worked with Berghaus

Heinrich Berghaus

Heinrich Berghaus was a German geographer.-Life: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...

, and then labored three years in Edinburgh

Edinburgh

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 on Alexander Keith Johnston's Physical Atlas. Beginning in 1847, he studied under Carl Ritter

Carl Ritter

Carl Ritter was a German geographer. Along with Alexander von Humboldt, he is considered one of the founders of modern geography. From 1825 until his death, he occupied the first chair in geography at the University of Berlin.-Biography:Ritter was born in Quedlinburg, one of the six children of a...

 and Heinrich Wilhelm Dove

Heinrich Wilhelm Dove

Heinrich Wilhelm Dove was a Prussian physicist and meteorologist. He was the father of Alfred and Richard Dove.-Early Years:...

 in Berlin

Berlin

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. In 1855 he entered the employ of Brockhaus

Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus

Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus was a German encyclopedia publisher and editor, famed for publishing the Conversations-Lexikon, which is now published as the Brockhaus encyclopedia.-Biography:...

's firm at the head of the geographical department; retired in 1860; and in 1868 became inspector in the Berlin Statistical Bureau.

Works

He published:

• Atlas von Nordamerika (1854)
• Brockhaus' Reiseatlas (1858-73)
• Land und Seekarte des Mittelländischen Meers (2d ed. 1870)