cartographer geographer university professor
He attended Humboldt University of Berlin. He studied history, philology, and geography.
He traveled frequently as a youth with his family and documented his travels by drawing. Kiepert was taught by August Meineke in school. Meineke influenced Kiepert"s interest in classical antiquity.
He published his first geographical work, with Carl Ritter, in 1840, titled Atlas von Hellas und den hellenischen Kolonien.
In 1841, he drew the maps which appeared in a groundbreaking book on the Mideast written by Edward Robinson. The atlas focused on ancient Greece.
In 1848 his Historisch-geographischer Atlas der alten Welt was published. In 1854, his atlas, Atlas antiquus was released.
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Neuer Handatlas über alle Teile der Erde was first published in 1855. In 1877 his Lehrbuch der alten Geographie was published, and in 1879 Leitfaden der alten Geographie, which was translated into English (A Manual of Ancient Geography, 1881) and into French. In 1894 he created the first part of a larger atlas of the ancient world titled Formae orbis antiqui.
He traveled to Asia Minor four times between 1841 and 1848.
He created two maps of the region, including Karte des osmanischen Reiches in Asien, in 1844. Kiepert taught geography at the University of Humboldt-Berlin starting in 1854.
He taught at the university until his death. He died in Berlin on April 21, 1899.
He also managed the reissuing of Formae orbis antiqui.
Prussian Academy of Sciences. Austrian Academy of Sciences.