‘To what extent you have to be satisfied with your situation there … ’: August(us) Petermann in Britain, 1845–1854

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Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI:10.1080/03085694.2022.2130526

Imre Josef Demhardt

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ABSTRACT After his apprenticeship with Heinrich Berghaus in Potsdam, August(us) Petermann worked from 1845 to 1847 for W. & A. K. Johnston in Edinburgh to assist in the production of the English version of Berghaus’s Physikalischer Atlas. In June 1847, Petermann became a freelance cartographer in London focusing on innovative maps of population, infrastructure, hydrography and other themes in Britain, as well as on exploration maps of Africa and the Arctic. From 1853, his commercial ties with Justus Perthes’s Geographische Anstalt intensified, and in 1854 a now professionally well-rounded Petermann moved to Gotha. This article, written to commemorate the bicentenary of his birth, is a comprehensive appraisal of Petermann’s nine years in the United Kingdom. It is posited that his work there was both formative and ultimately essential to the innovations in cartography and geography that he encouraged in his journal Petermanns Mittheilungen from 1855 on. The article is complemented by the first thoroughly revised carto-bibliography and bibliography of his oeuvre in more than a century.

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“你必须在多大程度上对自己在那里的处境感到满意 … ’: 奥古斯特·彼得曼在英国，1845-1854

在波茨坦师从海因里希·伯格豪斯之后，奥古斯特·彼得曼于1845年至1847年在爱丁堡为w & A. K.约翰斯顿工作，协助制作伯格豪斯的《物理地图》英文版。1847年6月，彼得曼在伦敦成为一名自由制图师，专注于英国人口、基础设施、水文和其他主题的创新地图，以及非洲和北极的勘探地图。从1853年起，他与贾斯图斯·佩尔特的《安斯塔特地理学》的商业联系加强了，1854年，一个现在专业知识丰富的彼得曼搬到了哥达。这篇文章是为纪念彼得曼诞辰200周年而写的，是对彼得曼在英国9年的全面评价。有人认为，他在那里的工作对制图学和地理学的创新既有形成作用，又最终至关重要，他从1855年开始在他的杂志Petermanns Mittheilungen中鼓励这种创新。这篇文章是一个多世纪以来他的作品的第一个彻底修订的书目和参考书目的补充。

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