Eduard Imhof

Eduard Imhof (25 January 1895 – 27 April 1986) was a professor of cartography at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, from 1925 to 1965.

His fame, which extends far beyond the Institute of Technology, stems from his relief shading work on school maps and atlases.

Whilst a student his studies where sometimes interrupted by military duty guarding the Swiss border as a lieutenant of artillery.

Imhof spent several weeks living in a Tibetan monastery in 1930 while he was measuring the height and position of Minya Konka.

He retired from teaching academically in 1965, but continued to give lectures and accept many awards for his lifetime of achievement until his death in 1986 in Erlenbach, following a short illness.