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KIEPERT, HEINRICH (1818-1899)

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 He See also:left unpublished considerable material in various departments of his work, and with the assistance of this his son See also:Richard (b.

1846), who followed his See also:

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

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