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Birth:
3rd May 1797 (Wednesday), Kleve
Death:
17th February 1884 (Sunday), Szczecin
Age at death:
86
Copyright status of works:
Public domain; can be used, copied and distributed by everybody
Info from Wikipedia:
Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Berghaus was a German geographer and cartographer who conducted trigonometric surveys in Prussia and taught geodesy at the Bauakademie in Berlin. He taught cartography and produced a pioneering and influential thematic atlas which provided maps of flora, fauna, climate, geology, diseases and a range of other information. He was a friend of Alexander von Humboldt and produced some of the maps used in his publications. A nephew Hermann Berghaus also worked in cartography.
No own Low German works, only translations or works about Low German.
Names of Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Berghaus:
  • Berghaus, Heinrich Karl Wilhelm
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