Henry Lange

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Henry Lange

Henry Lange (born April 13, 1821 in Stettin , † August 30, 1893 in Berlin ; full name Karl Julius Heinrich Lange ) was a German cartographer and writer.

Life

Born as the son of a secret judicial and higher regional judge, he completed his professional training at the famous cartography school of Heinrich Berghaus in Potsdam . On the recommendation of his teacher, he worked for three years on the first Physical Atlas of the Scottish geographer Alexander Keith Johnston in Edinburgh in 1844 . After his return in 1847 he worked as a freelance cartographer for numerous publishers and researchers in Berlin , including Alexander von Humboldt , Carl Ritter , Heinrich Wilhelm Dove , Heinrich Barth , E. v. Bunsen and Heinrich Kiepert . After working at the FA Brockhaus publishing house in Leipzig , for which he was to set up a cartographic department between 1855 and 1859, he turned back to commissioned cartographic work and increasingly worked as a writer for specialist and family magazines with a focus on biographical articles and reports Research trips . His last professional position was the Royal Statistical Office in Berlin from 1868, where he held the position of planning chamber inspector from 1871 until his retirement in 1891.

Commitment to an association for colonial expansion

Lange was instrumental in founding the Central Association for Commercial Geography and the promotion of German interests abroad . Through his professional activity, he was in contact with some leading German colonial advocates, such as the Göttingen geographer Johann Eduard Wappäus and Hermann Blumenau , the founder of the settlement named after him in Santa Catarina , southern Brazil , and had co-founded the Leipzig Geographical Association in the early 1860s . At the end of the 1860s, Lange met a group of geographers around the Africa explorer Otto Kersten in Berlin , who at that time were already advocating similar plans and succeeding in attracting interested parties and financially strong supporters to found the association, which finally took place on October 9, 1878 .

Services

In addition to scientific map supplements, his diverse work includes travel and hand atlases, Bible atlases and maps of Saxony and North America as well as industrial and commercial geography. His most popular works can be attributed to school cartography , which he carried out for George Westermann's publishing house since 1849. After the death of the original editor Theodor Freiherr von Liechtenstern, he first completed the latest school atlas for teaching geography for secondary schools and made the necessary revisions through 90 editions until 1892. Various elementary school atlases followed, of which the extremely successful New Elementary School Atlas achieved over 230 editions with over 2.4 million printed copies across all parts of the world from 1871 to Henry Lange's death.

Awards and honors

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Henry Lange  - Sources and full texts
Commons : Henry Lange  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus J. Bade : Friedrich Fabri and Imperialism in the Bismarckian Age , Verlag Atlantis, Freiburg im Breisgau 1975. Page 180. ( Digitized version , PDF, 2.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Long, Henry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lange, Karl Julius Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cartographer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1893
Place of death Berlin