Heinrich Christian Albers

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Heinrich Christian Albers (born July 27, 1773 in Lüneburg ; † January 6, 1833 there ) was a German cartographer .

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Heinrich Christian Albers was a son of the city treasurer and businessman Justus Heinrich Albers. He initially occupied himself with mathematical and scientific studies and took over his father's business in 1811. Presumably in the context of mapping East India, he founded the Albers cone projection named after him , which was methodologically much better than the representation created by Patrick Murdoch in 1758 .

At first, Albers obviously only used his form of representation himself. It was not until Christian Gottlieb Reichard took it up again in 1817 in a depiction of Europe. Only then did Heinrich Hartl adopt this method again towards the end of the 19th century.

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