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Petermann, August Heinrich
(ou´gst hn´rkh p´trmän) (KEY) , 182278, German geographer, an authority on the geography of Africa and the Arctic. He had (184754) a cartographical establishment in London and in 1854 became director of the Perthes Geographical Institution, Gotha. In 1855 he founded Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen, a geographical journal.