[Heinrich Karl Wilhelm]. Geographer, born in Cleves, Rhenish Prussia, on the 3rd of May 1797; died in Stettin on the 17th of February 1884. He was educated at Münster; in 1816 became geographical engineer in the war department at Berlin; in 1824 professor of mathematics in the Berlin Architectural Academy; in 1836 director of the Potsdam Geographical School. He was one of the most active promoters of geographical knowledge. His Physical Atlas (90 plates; Gotha, 1838–48) is the most prominent of his cartographical works. He also edited several geographical periodicals, and published Ethnography; Nations of the Globe; and a translation of Catlin’s Indians of North America.
