Heinrich Berghaus is remembered for reaching places that the written record had not yet described.
The record lists Heinrich Berghaus as German geographer, cartographer and teacher (1797–1884).
Heinrich Berghaus was born at Kleve in 1797. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Prussia.
Enlightenment expeditions carried naturalists and instruments; the Pacific was charted with chronometers and the intention of measuring, not merely claiming.
He is recorded as cartographer, university teacher and mathematician.
What an expedition is remembered for is rarely what it set out to do.
Heinrich Berghaus died in 1884, aged 87. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Recorded as cartographer, university teacher and mathematician
