Richard Andree
Richard Andree (born
26 February 1835 in
Brunswick, died
22 February 1912 on a train-ride between
Munich and
Nuremberg) was, like his father
Karl Andree (
1808-
1875) a
German geographer, noted for devoting himself especially to
ethnography. He wrote numerous books on this subject, dealing notably with the races of his own country, while an important general work was
Ethnographische Parallelen und Vergleiche (Stuttgart, 1878).
As a director of the
Geographical Institute of Velhagen & Klasing,
Leipzig, (1873-1890) he also took up
cartography, having a chief share in the production of the
Physikalisch-Statistischer Atlas des Deutschen Reichs (together with O. Peschel, Leipzig, 1877), and
Droysens Allgemeiner Historischer Handatlas, (Leipzig, 1886), as well as school atlases.
His main work, however, is his
Allgemeiner Handatlas (Leipzig, first edition 1881, final edition 1937), one of the most comprehensive world atlases of all times. The early editions of the
Times Atlas of the World (1895-1900) are based on this atlas, as was Cassell's
Universal Atlas. Andree also continued the editorship of the
Globus (1891-1903).
Lit.: H. Meyer:
Velhagen & Klasing 150 Jahre 1835-1985, Berlin, 1985;J. Espenhorst:
Petermann's Planet, a guide to German handatlases, Schwerte, 2003.
*Scans of
Droysens Allgemeiner Historischer Handatlas, 1886
