HEINRICH

BERGHAUS (1797-1884)  , German geographer, was born at Kleve on the 3rd of May 1797 . He was trained as a surveyor, and after volunteering for active service under General Tauenzien in 1813, joined the staff of the Prussian trigonometrical survey in 1816 . He carried on a geographical school at Potsdam in company with Heinrich Lange, August Petermann, and others, and long held the professorship of applied mathematics at the Bauakademie . But he is most famous in connexion with his cartographical work . His greatest achievement was the Physikalischer Atlas (Gotha, 1838—1848), in which work, as in others, his nephew HERMANN BERGHAIIS (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), and in the production of other atlases . His written works were numerous and important, including Allgemeine Lander- and Volkerkunde (Stuttgart, 1837—1840), Grundriss der Geogra.phie in flint' Buckern (Berlin, 1842), Die Volker des Erdballs (Leipzig, 1845-1847), Was man von der Erde weiss (Berlin, 1856-186o), and various large works on Germany . In 1863 he published Briefwechsel mit Alexander von Humboldt (Leipzig) . He died a.t Stettin on the 17th of February 1884 .