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| Petermann, August Heinrich |
(ou´g st h n´r kh p ´t rmän) (KEY) , 1822–78, German geographer, an authority on the geography of Africa and the Arctic. He had (1847–54) a cartographical establishment in London and in 1854 became director of the Perthes Geographical Institution, Gotha. In 1855 he founded Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen, a geographical journal. |
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