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Large German world globe, "Erd Globus" revised by Dr. Henry Lange*, published by Ludw. Jul. Heymann in Berlin, on a blackened wooden base, circa late 19th-early 20th centuries.
This globe is in good general condition, good quality. Signed see photos.
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Karl Julius Heinrich Lange (1821-1893)
was a Prussian cartographer and geographer. The son of a court of appeal judge, he entered the Geographische Kunstschule of Heinrich Berghaus in Potsdam as a student, with whom he worked and who recommended him to participate in the Physical Atlas of Alexander Keith Johnston in Edinburgh (1844-1847). On his return, he worked as a cartographer for many scholars and explorers such as Alexander von Humboldt, Carl Ritter, Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, Heinrich Barth, Heinrich Kiepert or George Westermann. Professor of cartography (1854), in 1855, he was appointed director of the geography department at the publisher Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, a position he held until 1860. In 1868, he joined the Royal Statistical Office in Berlin, where he became inspector from 1871 to 1891.
