German geographer and statistician, born in Frankfort-on-the-Main, on the 30th of December 1834. He removed to London in 1852; held a position in the statistical department of the War Office (1855–74); was a member of the councils of the Royal Geographical and Royal Statistical societies; founded and for ten years was president of the German Gymnastic Society. He published the Russians on the Amur (1861); Geography and Statistics of the British Empire (1862); London and the British Isles (1877); Englisher-Sprachführer (1884); and prepared a great many maps, including Eastern Equatorial Africa; British East Africa; and a Topographical Map of England and Wales (1893).
