Behm

Behm, DR ERNST, a German geographer, was born January 4, 1830, at Gotha, where he died on the 15th of March 1884. In 1856 he became Dr Petermann's chief assistant in editing the famous geographical periodical, Mitteilungen, to the editorship of which he succeeded on his chief's death in 1878. In 1872 he commenced, in conjunction with H. Wagner, the useful Bevölkerung der Erde (vol. vii. 1882), intended as a statistical supplement to the Mitteilungen; and from 1876 he undertook the statistical department of the Almanach de Gotha. His more extended writings of this nature are marked by fullness, accuracy, and marked lucidity of arrangement.