Hermann Wagner (geographer)

[3] In 1868, Wagner began work for the publishing firm Justus Perthes as an editor in the statistical section of the Gothaer Almanack.

[4][5] Beginning in 1872, with Ernst Behm, he was editor of the geographical/statistical review Die Bevolkerung der Erde.

[4][7] From 1879 to 1920, he was editor of the Geographisches Jahrbuch[8] 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,[9] a school atlas that is named in conjunction with cartographer Emil von Sydow.

[10][11] Wagner was member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 1878;[12] in 1908 he was awarded the Carl-Ritter-Medal and in 1910 the Cullum Geographical Medal.