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Appearance. hide. Augustus Heinrich Petermann (18 April 1822 – 25 September 1878) was a German cartographer . Early years. Petermann was born in Bleicherode, Germany. When he was 14 years old, he started grammar school in the nearby town of Nordhausen. Despite family pressures to become a clergyman, he pursued his passion for cartography instead.
August Heinrich Petermann war ein deutscher Geograph und Kartograph. Er gilt als einer der maßgeblichen Vertreter dieser Wissenschaften des 19. Jahrhunderts.
18 de abr. de 2017 · August Petermann, a German cartographer, was born Apr. 18, 1822. Petermann was a skilled map maker who came to Scotland in 1845 to assist the English map maker A.K. Johnston produce his atlas (Johnston had permission to translate into English the...
Petermann was fund-raiser and organizer of the German Exploring Expedition of 1868 (leader Karl Koldewey), and the German Exploration Expedition, 1869-1870 (leader Karl Koldewey), believing that 'an open polar sea' would allow ships to penetrate toward the North Pole from east Greenland.
The geographer August Petermann, who initiated the first German expedition to the Arctic in 1868, had hoped to confirm his theory that the Arctic Ocean was completely ice-free and therefore navigable.
27 de mar. de 2022 · One of the almost forgotten pioneers of polar exploration was the German August Heinrich Petermann (1822-1878). Today, three mountain ranges in the Wohltat Massif of Antarctica are reminders of the busy Prussian cartographer.
AUGUST HEINRICH PETERMANN (1822-1878), German cartographer, was born at Bleicherode, near Nordhausen, on the 18th of April 1822. At the age of seventeen he entered the Geographical School of Art in Potsdam, and in 1845 proceeded to Edinburgh to assist Dr Keith Johnston in the production of an English edition of the Physical Atlas of Berghaus.
