Ernst Debes

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Ernst Debes (born June 22, 1840 in Neukirchen near Eisenach , † November 22, 1923 in Leipzig ) was a German cartographer .

Life

Ernst Debes was the son of the cantor August Debes. He received his high school education in Eisenach with a brilliant degree in mathematics and drawing subjects. He then completed an apprenticeship in surveying at the government geometer in Gotha ; Even as an apprentice, he carried out independent measurements in the Thuringian Forest. From April 1, 1858, there was first an apprenticeship, then the collaboration in the geographic establishment of Justus Perthes under August Petermann . 1868–1869 he stayed in Paris. There the revision of Stieler's school atlas took place. From 1870 he was caused by the political situation, in the parental home and withKarl Baedeker to stay in Koblenz and make plans for his own business there. In 1872 he joined Eduard Wagner's company in Darmstadt. Together with Heinrich Wagner , the son of Eduard Wagner, he ran this under the company name “H. Wagner & E. Debes ”continued in Leipzig from January 1, 1872. The move there took place in connection with the move of Karl Baedeker Verlag to the book trade metropolis at that time in 1872, as the new company supplied most of the map material for the Baedeker travel guides .

In 1879 he began working on physical ( hydrographic and climatic ) maps. In 1895 he created a manual atlas that was translated into many languages. He dealt with botany. His work in the field of diatomaceous studies led to an art and valuable collection that was handed over to the University of Giessen together with the associated library after his death .

He had two sons: Eugen in 1875 and Eduard in 1876.

Ernst Debes' ashes were buried in a family grave in Leipzig's southern cemetery.

Grave site of the Debes family in the Leipzig south cemetery (grave site UH / 3)

Works

  • Creation of map sheets for Stieler's Handatlas: Maps of the British Isles, the Strait of Gibraltar, the South Pole as well as East Asia, Polynesia and the Pacific Ocean
  • Lunar atlas
  • from 1872 collaboration on the cartographic equipment of the Baedeker travel guide (H. Wagner & E. Debes)
  • 1877 (beginning of a three-part atlas cycle): small hand atlas: first independent publishing company with two additional variants of a repetition atlas (silent maps) and home atlases of the Prussian provinces
  • 1881 “Debes' School Atlas for the Middle Level” with 31 maps
  • 1884 large school atlas together with Alfred Kirchhoff with 60 maps
  • 1895 first edition. his large hand atlas, including a Russian edition “Petris Handatlas” published by Adolf Fyodorovich Marks St. Petersburg; a Czech one from the Jan Otto publishing house in Prague and a Hungarian one from the Magyar Földrajzi Intézet publishing house in Budapest

Honors

literature

  • 100 years of H. Wagner & E. Debes, 1835–1935. Darmstadt / Leipzig 1935.
  • Susanne Müller: The world of Baedeker: A media culture history of the travel guide 1830-1945. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2012.
  • Elias Weirauch: The maps in Baedeker travel guides between 1827 and 1945. A cultural history of travel and travel guides. AV Akademikerverlag, Saarbrücken 2014 [print on demand / e-book] - ISBN 978-3-639-78680-4

Web links

Commons : Wagner & Debes  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual references, comments

  1. ↑ Due to his age, Eduard Wagner was no longer interested in a new beginning in Leipzig ( [1] ).
personal data
SURNAME Debes, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Neukirchen near Eisenach
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1923
Place of death Leipzig