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
- ^ MathWorks Behrmann Cylindrical Projection
- ^ a b Leibniz Institut für Länderkunde biographical sketch
- ^ The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
- ^ The Hindenburg Wall. A review of existing knowledge.
- ^ OCLC WorldCat Search published works
- ^ OCLC Classify published works
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