Editing Heinrich Kiepert (section)

==Cartography career==
[[File:Nouvelle carte generale des provinces asiatiques de L'empire Ottoman (Kiepert, 1883).jpg|thumb|"New General Map of the Asian/Eastern Provinces of the Ottoman Empire: Without Arabia" by Heinrich Kiepert]]
He published his first geographical work, with [[Carl Ritter]], in 1840, titled ''Atlas von Hellas und den hellenischen Kolonien''. The atlas focused on [[ancient Greece]].<ref name="WDL"/>  In 1841, he drew [[Kiepert maps of Palestine and Jerusalem|the maps which appeared in a groundbreaking book on the Mideast]], ''[[Biblical Researches in Palestine]]'', written by [[Edward Robinson (scholar)|Edward Robinson]].<ref>Israel: Splendors of the Holy Land, by Sarah Kochav, Thames and Hudson, 1998, p.114.</ref>  In 1848 his ''Historisch-geographischer Atlas der alten Welt'' was published. In 1854, his [[atlas]], ''Atlas antiquus'' was released. It was translated into five languages. ''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.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} Furthermore, he made some maps for the Baedeker publishing, mainly for their Egypt and Palestine outstanding guides but also for some of Europe (Paris, London, South Italy, etc.):<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hinrichsen |first1=Alex W. |title=Baedeker's Travel Guides 1832–1990 |date=2008 |page=42 |url=http://www.bdkr.com/AWH_bibliography_pt1.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140701073510/http://www.bdkr.com/AWH_bibliography_pt1.pdf |archive-date=2014-07-01 |url-status=live}}</ref> ''Italie du Sud et la Sicile. Avec excursions aux îles de Lipari, à Tunis, à Malte, en Sardaigne et à Athènes'' (3rd ed., 1872), ''London nebst Ausflügen nach Süd-England, Wales u. Schottland, sowie Reiserouten vom Continent nach England'' (5th ed., 1875); and ''Paris ses environs et les principaux itinéraires des pays limitrophes à Paris'' (3rd ed., 1874).

Kiepert taught geography at the University of Humboldt-Berlin starting in 1854. He taught at the university until his death.<ref name="WDL">{{cite web |url = http://www.wdl.org/en/item/11734/ |title = New General Map of the Asian/Eastern Provinces of the Ottoman Empire: Without Arabia |website = [[World Digital Library]] |date = 1884–1912 |accessdate = 2013-07-25 }}</ref>