BERGHAUS, HEINRICH (i 7 9 German geogra pher, was born at Kleve on May 3, 1797, and joined the staff of the Prussian trigonometrical survey in 1816. He carried on a geo graphical school at Potsdam in company with Heinrich Lange, August Petermann, and others, and long held the professorship of applied mathematics at the Bauakademie. His greatest achieve ment was the Physikalischer Atlas (Gotha, 1838-48), in which work, as in others, his nephew HERMANN BERGHAUS (1828-90) was associated with him. He also had a share in the reissue of the great Stieler Handatlas (produced by Adolf Stieler in 1817 23), and in the production of other atlases. His written works included Allgemeine Lander- and Volkerkunde (Stuttgart, 1837 40), Grundriss der Geographie in fiinf Biichern (1842), Die Volker des Erdballs (Leipzig, 1845-47), Was man von der Erde Weiss (18 56-6o) , and various large works on Germany. In 1863 he published Briefwechsel mit Alexander von Humboldt (Leipzig). He died at Stettin on Feb. 17 , 1884.