Richard Kiepert

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Richard Kiepert

Richard Kiepert (born September 13, 1846 in Weimar ; † August 4, 1915 in Berlin ) was a German geographer and cartographer .

Life

After completing his academic studies, Richard Kiepert took part in the work of his father Heinrich Kiepert and also edited his academic legacy. He also published school wall maps , atlases and individual maps . Kiepert devoted himself in particular to the maps of Africa and published the German Colonial Atlas for official use in the protected areas (Berlin 1893) and a map of German East Africa .

Between 1875 and 1887 Kiepert edited the geographic-ethnographic journal Globus . Since 1877 he was the scientific director of Dietrich Reimer's cartographic institute in Berlin.

The Society for Geography in Berlin awarded Kiepert the Carl-Ritter-Medal in silver in 1908 .

Richard Kiepert died on August 4, 1915 at the age of 68 in the Fichtenhof Sanatorium in Berlin.

Works (selection)

  • Map of Asia Minor . 24 sheets 1: 400.000, Berlin 1901 ff.
  • German East Africa . 1 ct., Berlin 1898

literature

  • Joseph Partsch: Richard Kiepert. Kiepert's share in Richthofen's Atlas of South China , 1915

Web links

Wikisource: Richard Kiepert  - Sources and full texts
Commons : Richard Kiepert  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Awards . In: Journal of the Society for Geography in Berlin . 1910, p. (45) ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Kiepert, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer and cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1915
Place of death Berlin