Büsching

Büsching, ANTON FRIEDRICH, geographer, was born in 1724 in Schaumburg-Lippe, and died, the director of a gymnasium in Berlin, 28th May 1793. Until the appearance of his unfinished Erdbeschreibung (1754-92), neither Germany nor any other nation possessed a geographical work which made any pretension to scientific treatment or completeness of execution.—His son, Johann (1783-1829), published many works on old German literature, art, and antiquities.