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HEINRICH KIEPERT (1818-1899)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 788 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HEINRICH

KIEPERT (1818-1899)  , German geographer, was born at Berlin on the 31st of
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July 1818 . He was educated at the university there, studying especially
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history,
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philology and geography . In 1840-1846, in collaboration with Karl Ritter, he issued his first
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work,
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Atlas von Hellas and den hellenischen Kolonien, which brought him at once into eminence in the sphere of ancient
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historical cartography . In 1848 his Historischgeographischer Atlas der alien Welt appeared, and in 1854 the first edition of the Atlas antiquus, which has obtained very wide recognition, being issued in
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English, French,
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Russian, Dutch and
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Italian . In 1894 Kiepert produced the first
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part of a larger atlas of the ancient
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world under the title Formae orbis antiqui; his valuable maps in Corpus inscriptionum latinarum must also be mentioned . In 1877-1878 his Lehrbuch der alten Geographie was published, and in 1879 Leitfaden der alien Geographie, which was translated into English (A
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Manual of Ancient Geography, 1881) and into French . Among Kiepert's general
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works one of the most important was the excellent Neuer Handatlas giber alle Teile der Erde (1855 et seq.), and he also compiled a large number of
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special and educational maps .
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Asia Minor was an
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area in which he took particular
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interest . He visited it four times in 1841-1888; and his first map (1843-1846), together with his Karte
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des osmanischen Reiches in Asien (1844 and 1869), formed the highest authority for the geography of the region . Kiepert was professor of geography in the university of Berlin from 1854 . He died at Berlin on the 21st of
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April 1899 . He
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left unpublished considerable material in various departments of his work, and with the assistance of this his son Richard (b .

1846), who followed his

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father's career, was enabled to issue a map of Asia Minor in 24 sheets, on a scale of 1: 400,000 (1902 et seq.), and to carry on the issue of Formae orbis antiqui .

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