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Walter Behrmann

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Walter Emmerich Behrmann (May 22, 1882, Oldenburg - May 3, 1955, Berlin) was a German geographer. He is remembered for introducing a cylindrical map projection known as the "Behrmann projection".[1]

Map of the World in Behrmann projection

Biography

From 1901 to 1905, he studied geography, mathematics and physics at the University of Göttingen, where he was a student of Hermann Wagner. Later on, he worked as an assistant to geographer Joseph Partsch at the University of Leipzig (1908/09).[2] In 1912/13 he participated as a geographer in the Kaiserin-Augusta-Fluss Expedition to New Guinea.[3]

In 1918 he was appointed director of the Landeskundlichen Kommission in Romania. In 1922 he was named an associate professor of cartography at the University of Berlin, and afterwards was a professor of geography at Frankfurt University (1923-) and at the Free University of Berlin (1948-). In 1954 he attained "professor emeritus" status.[2]

Selected works

  • Über die niederdeutschen Seebücher des fünfzehnten und sechzehnten Jahrhunderts, 1906.
  • Nach Deutsch-Neuguinea, 1914.
  • Der Sepik (Kaiserin-Augusta-fluss) und sein Stromgebiet, 1917.
  • Im stromgebiet des Sepik, eine deutsche forschungsreise in Neuguinea, 1922.
  • Das westliche Kaiser-Wilhelms-land in Neu-Guinea, 1924.
  • Rhein-Mainischer Atlas für Wirtschaft, Verwaltung und Unterricht, 1929 (with Otto Maull).
  • Aufgaben der Kolonialkartographie, 1936.
  • Die Entschleierung der Erde, 1948.[4][5]

References

  1. ^ MathWorks Behrmann Cylindrical Projection
  2. ^ a b Leibniz Institut für Länderkunde biographical sketch
  3. ^ The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
  4. ^ OCLC WorldCat Search published works
  5. ^ OCLC Classify published works