Heinrich Berghaus
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Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Berghaus was a German geographer and cartographer who conducted trigonometric surveys in Prussia and taught geodesy at the Bauakademie in Berlin.
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![Umrisse Der Pflanzengeographie [Outline of plant geography] (1838), made for Humboldt](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Heinrich_Berghaus_-_1838_-_Umrisse_Der_Pflanzengeographie.jpg/1280px-Heinrich_Berghaus_-_1838_-_Umrisse_Der_Pflanzengeographie.jpg)
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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.
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