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HEINRICH See also:BERGHAUS (1797-1884)
, See also:German geographer, was See also:born at Kleve on the 3rd of May 1797
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He was trained as a surveyor, and after volunteering for active service under See also:General Tauenzien in 1813, joined the See also:staff of the Prussian trigonometrical survey in 1816
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He carried on a See also:geographical school at See also:Potsdam in See also:company with Heinrich See also:Lange, See also:August See also:Petermann, and others, and See also:long held the professorship of applied See also:mathematics at the Bauakademie
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But he is most famous in connexion with his cartographical See also:work
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His greatest achievement was the Physikalischer See also:Atlas (See also:Gotha, 1838—1848), in which work, as in others, his See also:nephew See also:HERMANN BERGHAIIS (1828—1890) was associated with him
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He had also a See also:share in the re-issue of the See also:great Stieler Handatlas (originally produced by Adolf Stieler in 1817—1823), and in the See also:production of other atlases
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His written See also:works were numerous and important, including Allgemeine See also:Lander- and Volkerkunde (See also:Stuttgart, 1837—1840), Grundriss der Geogra.phie in See also:flint' Buckern (See also:Berlin, 1842), See also:Die Volker See also:des Erdballs (See also:Leipzig, 1845-1847), Was See also:man von der Erde See also:weiss (Berlin, 1856-186o), and various large works on See also:Germany
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In 1863 he published Briefwechsel mit See also: |
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