Hermann Berghaus

Hermann Berghaus ( 16 November 1828 Herford, Westphalia – 3 December 1890, Gotha) was a German cartographer.

He was a nephew of Heinrich Berghaus, with whom he had received in 1845-1850 his education at the Geographische Kunstschule (Geographical School of Art) .

He also prepared a Physikalische Wandkarte von Afrika (Physical wall map of Africa, 1881).

[2] In recognition of his services to cartography, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Königsberg as early as 1868.

In 1881 he received the gold medal for special achievements from the cartographers' congress in Venice and in 1885 Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha appointed him professor.