Mahlmann, Heinrich
Heinrich Mahlmann (1812 - December 12, 1848) was a German engraver, lithographer, and cartographer based in Berlin. He worked with Carl Ritter (1779 - 1859), Franz August von Etzel (1784 - 1850), and Heinrich Kiepert (1818 - 1899), among others. We have found references to both 'Carl Heinrich Wilhelm Mahlmann' and 'Heinrich Christian Ludwig', some suggesting they were brothers, and both involved in cartography. Which Heinrich is which, however, is unclear. We believe the engraver who signed his work 'H. Mahlmann' is most likely the latter, 'Heinrich Christian Ludwig'.
Compiling European Explorations of the Altai.
Karte vom Russischen Altai.
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This is Carl Ritter and Heinrich Mahlmann's 1839 map of the Altay region of central Asia. This map was compiled at a time when Europeans knew little of this region, but compiles the tracks of European explorers who, between 1771 and 1829, explored the mountainous region. It represents a revolutionary amalgam of explorers' accounts and speculation expounded through the lens of Ritter's German Romantic theories of the Earth as a 'cosmic individual'. (more details)