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Augustus Heinrich Petermann was born at Bleicherode, Germany on the 18th of April 1822.
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Augustus Heinrich Petermann was born at Bleicherode, Germany on the 18th of April 1822.
At the age of seventeen he entered the Geographical School of Art in Potsdam. Petermann received his Ph. D. degree in 1854.
In 1845 proceeded to Edinburgh to assist Dr Keith Johnston in the production of an English edition of the Physical Atlas of Berghaus.
In 1847 he came to London, and published among other works, an account of Barth's expedition to Central Africa (1855).
In 1854 he became director of the geographical institute of Justus Perthes in Gotha, and editor of the well-known Petermanns Mitteilungen. Queen Victoria, at the suggestion of Bunsen, appointed him Physical Geographer-Royal.
He organized expeditions to Africa, including one to Central Africa from 1849 to 1864 and one to the eastern Sudan and the middle Nile region from 1860 to 1863. A number of arctic expeditions between 1868 and 1874 were organized by Petermann, including those to Spitsbergen in 1868, the eastern coast of Greenland in 1869 and 1870, and Franz Josef Land in 1872 and 1874 (with J. von Payer).
Petermann died by his own hand at Gotha on the 25th of September 1878.
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In 1856 Petermann had married Clara Leslie and had two daughters with her. They were divorced in 1875. A year later he married for the second time.