Ernst Heinrich Michaelis

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Ernst Heinrich Michaelis (* 1794 in Schönenberg near Elbing ; † 1873 in Berlin-Schöneberg ) was a Prussian officer and geographer .

life and work

Charte von Schwaben by Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, Ignaz Ambros von Amman and Ernst Heinrich Michaelis, published 1798–1828
Chart of Swabia Instructions

Ernst Heinrich Michaelis was the son of a preacher and attended high school in Danzig . Later he worked for the Prussian General Staff and from 1817 for Alexander von Humboldt's Atlas geographique et physique du Nouveau Continent . He was also an employee of the geographic magazine Hertha von Heinrich Berghaus . From 1824 Michaelis worked as a cartographer for Johann Friedrich Cotta in Stuttgart and traveled to Switzerland for the first time in 1827 to study .

Michaelis probably settled in Aarau around 1834 and had contact with Guillaume Henri Dufour . The canton of Aargau was surveyed from 1837 to 1843 under the direction of Michaelis . This resulted in the so-called Michaeliskarte . This was the basis for the Swiss Dufour card . While he was still working on the canton map, Michaelis published the works Passage du Splügen et de la Via mala 1846/47 and the Carte du Canton du Tessin et des Environs de Milan , which shows decisive progress compared to all previous Ticino maps. In 1845 Michaelis published his study on the representation of the high mountains in topographic maps .

Michaelis later lived in Freiburg im Breisgau and Berlin, where he died in the sanatorium in Schöneberg.

literature

Web links

Commons : Ernst Heinrich Michaelis  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles Tschopp: 1834, Michaelis and Guillaume Henri Dufour. Retrieved August 16, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Michaelis, Ernst Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian officer and geographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Schönenberg near Elbing
DATE OF DEATH 1873
Place of death Berlin-Schöneberg