Heinrich Wagner (cartographer)

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Heinrich Wagner (born May 13, 1846 , † November 21, 1921 in Leipzig ) was a German cartographer .

Life

Heinrich Wagner was the first son of Eduard Wagner . He was trained as a lithographer in his father's company . He worked at FA Brockhaus in Leipzig, where he met Ernst Debes .

From 1872 they jointly ran the Darmstadt-based company Eduard Wagner under the name “H. Wagner & E. Debes ”. After Baedeker-Verlag, one of the company's main clients, had completely relocated its headquarters from Koblenz to Leipzig, the lithographic establishment was also relocated to Leipzig on January 1, 1873, Eduard Wagner retired from business life and Heinrich Wagner became the new director of the company.

In 1902 his two sons Eduard (* 1876) and Carl Wagner (* January 2, 1871) joined the company, together with Ernst Debes' son Eugen Debes (* 1875).

Maps and atlases

  • Maps and plans for the Baedeker travel guide
  • Maps for Karl Wolff's historical atlas for the Dietrich Reimer publishing house in Berlin
  • Physical-statistical atlas of the German Empire by Oscar Peschel published by Velhagen & Klasing
  • Maps and plans for the Palestine Association
  • Leeder school wall maps for GD Baedeker in Essen
  • History wall maps for the Robert Voigtländer publishing house in Kreuznach
  • Three editions of Woldermann's plastic school atlas published by P. Eckerlein in Leipzig
  • Mission atlases for the Stuttgart bookstore
  • Maps for Supan's geographic textbook “Basic features of physical geography” published by Veit & Co. in Leipzig
  • Maps for the Atlas of the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean of the Deutsche Seewarte in Hamburg
  • Card supplements to Seydlitz '"Geographical Textbook" published by Ferdinand Hirt & Sohn in Leipzig
  • Cards for “Tanera's Tales from the Seventies War” published by CH Beck in Nördlingen

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personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1846
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1921
Place of death Leipzig