Name Walter Behrmann | Died May 3, 1955 | |
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Walter Emmerich Behrmann (May 22, 1882, Oldenburg - May 3, 1955, Berlin) was a German geographer. He is remembered for introducing a cylindrical map projection known as the "Behrmann projection".
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Biography
From 1901 to 1905, he studied geography, mathematics and physics at the University of Gottingen, where he was a student of Hermann Wagner. Later on, he worked as an assistant to geographer Joseph Partsch at the University of Leipzig (1908/09). In 1912/13 he participated as a geographer in the Kaiserin-Augusta-Fluss Expedition to New Guinea.
In 1918 he was appointed director of the Landeskundlichen Kommission in Romania. In 1922 he was named an associate professor of cartography at the University of Berlin, and afterwards was a professor of geography at Frankfurt University (1923-) and at the Free University of Berlin (1948-). In 1954 he attained "professor emeritus" status.