Hermann Wagner (23 June 1840 – 18 June 1929) was a German

geographer A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts. The Greek prefix "geo" means "earth" a ...

and

cartographer Cartography (; from grc, χάρτης , "papyrus, sheet of paper, map"; and , "write") is the study and practice of making and using maps. Combining science, aesthetics and technique, cartography builds on the premise that reality (or an im ...

and admin PLTM2 who was a native of

Erlangen Erlangen (; East Franconian German, East Franconian: ''Erlang'', Bavarian language, Bavarian: ''Erlanga'') is a Middle Franconian city in Bavaria, Germany. It is the seat of the administrative district Erlangen-Höchstadt (former administrative d ...

. He was the son of

anatomist Anatomy () is the branch of biology concerned with the study of the structure of organisms and their parts. Anatomy is a branch of natural science that deals with the structural organization of living things. It is an old science, having its ...

Rudolf Wagner Rudolf Friedrich Johann Heinrich Wagner (30 July 1805 – 13 May 1864) was a German anatomist and physiologist and the co-discoverer of the germinal vesicle. He made important investigations on ganglia, nerve-endings, and the sympathetic nerves ...

(1805–1864) and brother to

economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social sciences, social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this ...

Adolph Wagner Adolph Wagner (25 March 1835 – 8 November 1917) was a German economist and politician, a leading ''Kathedersozialist'' (academic socialist) and public finance scholar and advocate of agrarianism. Wagner's law of increasing state activity is ...

(1835–1917). Wagner received his education at the Universities of

Göttingen Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, t ...

and

, and from 1864 to 1876, taught classes in mathematics and natural history at the

Ernestine Gymnasium, Gotha The Ernestine Gymnasium (Latin name: Ernestinum, used in German) is a humanistic and modern gymnasium in Gotha, Germany, the successor of the Illustrious Gymnasium (''Gymnasium illustre''), founded in 1524, which in 1853 was merged with the rece ...

. When the

Freies Deutsches Hochstift The Freies Deutsches Hochstift (Free German Foundation) is a literary association based in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. It is the owner of the Goethe House, the place where the playwright and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born and spent his ...

(Free German Foundation was founded in 1859, Wagner was one of its 56 founding members. In 1868, Wagner began work for the publishing firm ''

Justus Perthes Johann Georg Justus Perthes (11 September 1749, Rudolstadt, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – 2 May 1816, Gotha, Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg) was a German publisher and founder of the publishing house that bears his name. Life He was born in the Thuringian t ...

'' as an editor in the statistical section of the ''Gothaer Almanack''. Beginning in 1872, with

Ernst Behm Ernst Behm (4 January 1830 – 15 March 1884) was a German geographer and statistician who was a native of Gotha. After leaving the Ernestine Gymnasium, Gotha, Behm studied medicine and sciences at the Universities of Jena, Berlin and W ...

, he was editor of the geographical/statistical review ''Die Bevolkerung der Erde''. In 1876 he was appointed to the chair of geography at the

University of Königsberg The University of Königsberg (german: Albertus-Universität Königsberg) was the university of Königsberg in East Prussia. It was founded in 1544 as the world's second Protestant academy (after the University of Marburg) by Duke Albert of Prussi ...

, and in 1880 was named as successor to Johann Eduard Wappäus as professor of geography at the

University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (german: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, known informally as Georgia Augusta) is a public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany. Founded ...

. From 1879 to 1920, he was editor of the ''Geographisches Jahrbuch''. In 1883–84 he published a new edition of Hermann Guthe's ''Lehrbuch der Geographie''. He is also associated with the ''Sydow-Wagner Methodischer Schulatlas'', a school

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that is named in conjunction with cartographer

Emil von Sydow Emil von Sydow (15 July 1812 – 13 October 1873) was a German military officer, geographer and cartographer born in Freiberg, Saxony. Prior to 1843 he was a geography instructor at the military academy in Erfurt, afterwards being appointed as a ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wagner, Hermann German geographers German cartographers University of Göttingen faculty University of Königsberg faculty University of Erlangen-Nuremberg alumni People from Erlangen 1840 births 1929 deaths Recipients of the Cullum Geographical Medal Founding members of the Freies Deutsches Hochstift