Walter Behrmann
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]
Biography
[edit]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] along with Richard Thurnwald.[4]
In 1918 he was appointed director of the Landeskundliche 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 (from 1923) and at the Free University of Berlin (from 1948). In 1954 he attained "professor emeritus" status.[2]
Selected works
[edit]- Über die niederdeutschen Seebücher des fünfzehnten und sechzehnten Jahrhunderts, 1906 (doctoral thesis).
- 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.[5][6]
References
[edit]- ↑ "MATLAB". www.mathworks.com. Archived from the original on 2014-09-13. Retrieved 2026-03-27.
- 1 2 Behrmann, Walter. "Findbuch" (PDF). www.ifl-leipzig.de. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2026-03-27.
- ↑ Aĭkhenvalʹd, Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna; Ala, Jacklyn Yuamali; Laki, Pauline Agnes Luma (2008-09-04). The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-953981-9.
- ↑ Zeriga-Alone, Tanya; Whitmore, Nathan; Ross Sinclair, J (January 2012). The Hindenburg Wall: A review of existing knowledge. Wildlife Conservation Society. ISBN 978-0-646-59013-4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-08-15.
- ↑ OCLC WorldCat Search published works
- ↑ OCLC Classify published works
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