Bruno Hassenstein

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Bruno Hassenstein (born November 23, 1839 in Ruhla ; † August 27, 1902 in Gotha ) was a German cartographer .

Life

Bruno Hassenstein had been a pupil of August Petermann in Gotha since 1854 , with whom he worked on the map of Inner Africa in 10 sheets on a scale of 1: 2,000,000 and the corresponding supplementary volume II of Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen (Gotha 1862-63). In addition, he drew numerous maps for the same magazine, especially those relating to Africa , the cartographic recording of which he greatly encouraged. Since Petermann's death (1878) he edited the cartographic part of the communications . From 1866 to 1868 he lived in Berlin , where he drew Theodore Sedgwick Fay's school atlas A great outline of geography (1867) and the eleven maps in Karl Klaus von der Decken's Travels in East Africa . Returned in 1868 to Gotha, he published in Perthes publishing over 30 new leaves to the third, by Heinrich Theodor Menke worried edition of Charles of Spruners Handatlas for the history of the Middle Ages and the modern period (1871-79) and in 1885 the excellent Atlas of Japan (7 sheets on a scale of 1: 1,000,000). Those travelers who owe him the processing and publication of their observations include in particular Wilhelm Junker , Friedrich Bohndorff , Emin Pascha , Hans Meyer , Ernst Marno , Gerhard Rohlfs , Josef Menges , Ludwig Wolf , Oskar Baumann and Sven Hedin . In 1887 he was made an honorary doctorate from the University of Göttingen and in 1891 received the Karl-Ritter-Medal . He was a corresponding member of the Thuringian-Saxon Association for Geography.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Directory of the members of the Thuringian-Saxon Geography Association on March 31, 1885 ( Memento from December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Hassenstein, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Ruhla
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1902
Place of death Gotha