Kiepert

Kiepert, HEINRICH, cartographer and geographer, was born at Berlin on 31st July 1818, and first established his reputation as a map-maker by preparing in co-operation with Ritter the Atlas of Hellas and the Hellenic Colonies (1840-46; new ed. 1870). Thereafter he gave his time and energy to constructing atlases of the Orient, especially of the Orient in ancient times, his best-known works in this connection being the maps of Asia Minor, the Osmanli empire in Asia, Caucasus, Palestine, and Turkey, and atlases of the Ancient World (historico-geographical) in various forms, of which the English edition (Atlas Antiquus) is familiar to nearly everybody. Kiepert, who conducted the Geographical Institute at Weimar from 1845 to 1852, and from 1859 was professor of Geography at Berlin, wrote, amongst other works, Lehrbuch der alten Geographie (1879), Leitfaden der alten Geographie (1879; Eng. trans. 1881), and numerous papers, mostly dealing with ancient oriental geography, in the Proceedings of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. He died in April 1899.