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Last Name Petermann

Given Name Augustus / August Heinrich

alt. Names A. P. ; August Peterman(n) / Петерман ;

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Year born 1822 in Bleicherode

Year died 1878

Place of death Gotha

Father's occupation registrar August Rudolf Petermann (1xxx-1xxx)

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Education scientific cartography at ->Heinrich Berghaus's Geographische Kunstschule Potsdam

Country of Activity United Kingdom

Worked for Dr. Joseph D. Hooker: Map of Bengal, Himalaya & Tibe (1854) ; Alexander von Humboldt: Atlas von Asien / Asie centrale (1843) ; cartographer H. K. W. Berghaus: Physikalischer Atlas ; African discovery (1854) ; Hewett C. Watson: Map of Britain ;

Patronage King of Prussia ; Royal Geographical Society ; Queen Victoria ;

Collaborators cartographical engraver A. K. Johnston ; cartographical engraver John Bartholomew Jr. ;

Techniques geographical drawing, copperplate engraving, lithography, and chromolithography ; cartographical map-making

Sample(s) http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3309058 ; http://collections.stanford.edu/images/bin/search/advanced/process?clauseMapped%28FULL_TEXT%29=stichart

Archival sources National Library Australia ;

Published sources C. J. Schüler: Geschichte der Kartographie 2010: 322-3 ; Lubrich 2014: 700 & 789 ; Güttler 2014: fig. III/10, IV/5, 7-9 & passim ;

other Geographer & map-maker, specialized in physical cartography, active in Germany (Potsdam, Prussia) and in London, 9 Charing Cross; also publ. Cyrenaica : Routen der Expeditionen der Società d'esplorazione commerciale in Africa unter Cap. M. Camperio & Comme (Haimann, 1881).

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