# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/heinrich-berghaus
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:50:59.140Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/heinrich-berghaus"
name: "Heinrich Berghaus"
slug: "heinrich-berghaus"
description: "Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Berghaus was a German geographer and cartographer who conducted trigonometric surveys in Prussia and taught geodesy at the Bauakademie in Berlin. He taught cartography and produced a pioneering and influential thematic atlas which provided maps of flora, fauna, climate, geology, diseases and a range of other information. He was a friend of Alexander von Humboldt and produced some of the maps used in his publications. A nephew Hermann Berghaus also worked in cartography."
tagline: "German geographer, cartographer and teacher (1797–1884)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Berghaus-portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1797-05-03"
deathDate: "1884-02-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.04
  momentum:             6.122448979591836
  historical:           9.608748
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%80%D1%96%D1%85_%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%80%D2%91%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%83%D1%81"
    title: "Генріх Берґгаус"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B4_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "هاينريش بيرجهاوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%96_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%97%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%B8"
    title: "হাইনরিখ বার্গহাউস"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Berghaus"
    title: "Heinrich Berghaus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Berghaus"
    title: "Heinrich Berghaus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Berghaus"
    title: "Heinrich Berghaus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Berghaus"
    title: "Heinrich Berghaus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Berghaus"
    title: "Heinrich Berghaus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Berghaus"
    title: "Heinrich Berghaus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Berghaus"
    title: "Heinrich Berghaus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Berghaus"
    title: "Heinrich Berghaus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q67485"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump