H. K. W. B. ; Heinr. K. / Karl / C. / Carl Wilh. B. ;
1797 in Kleve, Kingdom Westfalia, nowadays Germany
1884
Stettin, then Pommerania, nowadays Szczecin, Poland
cartographer Hermann Berghaus (1828-1890) (nephew)
trained as a surveyor, in geodesy, and cartography
Germany
Alexander von Humboldt & H. K.W. Berghaus's Physikalischer Atlas (1st ed. Gotha 1837-1848, with 90 plates) ;
since 1816 engineer geographer in the Prussian War ministry (Kriegsministerium) in Berlin, 1824-55 Prof. of appl. math. at Berlin's Bauakademie
publisher Perthes in Gotha ; reg. contrib. to Bertuch's Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden ; H. B.'s atlas visualized findings of the Dutch naturalist Salomon Müller and ->Alexaner von Humboldt ;
medical, cartographical, and topographical map-making, copperplate engraving & hand-colouring, lithography and chromolithography ;
see a listing of his maps & links to scanned maps at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Berghaus ;
ADB 46 1902: 374-379 ; NDB ; AKL 9 1994: 383f. ; Brandenburgisches Biogr. Lexikon 5 (2002) ; Jane Camerini in Isis 84 (1993): 708f. ; Nicolaas Rupke: Humboldtian distribution maps, in: Tory Frängsmyr (ed.): The Structure of Knowledge (Berkeley 2001: 93-116) ; Lubrich 2014: 24 et passim ; G. Engelmann in Petermanns Geogr. Mitteilungen 108 (1964): 133-49 ;
Active in Kleve, Greifswald, Stralsund & Stettin; famous as cartographer for Humboldt: see http://brianaltonenmph.com/gis/historical-disease-maps/heinrich-berghauss-physikalischer-atlas-1848/ for good selection of his thematic maps.
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