Carl Diercke

Carl Diercke (born 15 September 1842 in Kyritz, Ostprignitz; died 7 March 1913 in Berlin) was a German cartographer.

Carl Diercke.
Diercke-Commemorative plaque in Kyritz

Life

From 1863 to 1865, Diercke studied in Berlin. In 1875, Diercke started German geography atlas Diercke. Diercke was the first in the world to develop a world atlas without leaving his birth country[1]

In 1871, he married Hermine Marie Ottilie Lucas.

Legacy

Diercke was one of about 250 German brands selected in 2016 by Florian Langenscheidt, Deutsche Standards[lower-alpha 1], and Meiré and Meiré[lower-alpha 2] to be recognized as "Brands of the Century" for having a strong brand.[4]

Literature
  • Jürgen Espenhorst, Erhard Kümpel: Diercke, ein Atlas für Generationen. Hintergründe, Geschichte und bibliographische Angaben bis 1955. Pangaea-Verlag, Schwerte 1999, ISBN 3-930401-50-9.
Cover of 22. edition Diercke-Schulatlas
gollark: I still think that unless some fundamental things about consciousness which that assumes are figured out, and perhaps even then, this is kind of wasteful and useless.
gollark: Well, yes, might be.
gollark: We don't even know how consciousness works. That process might just somehow result in having two consciousnesses running for a bit. Who knows?
gollark: What's the real problem here? You lose consciousness all the time. Unless you don't sleep.
gollark: … not again.

See also

Notes
  1. "The publishing house Deutsche Standards EDITIONEN GmbH publishes multilingual specialized in books on brands, corporate culture, family businesses, German industry, and other economic topics. ... Publisher is Dr. Florian Langenscheidt (Berlin). The publishing house is located in the creative district of Cologne-Ehrenfeld"[2] Deutsche Standards declared bankruptcy around 2016.[3]
  2. See Mike Meiré and Marc Meiré.

References
  1. Company Diercke
  2. "Deutsche Standards EDITIONEN GmbH". dasauge (in German). 27 January 2014. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
  3. "Deutsche Standards Editionen / Florian Langenscheidts Verlag ist insolvent". boersenblatt (in German). 16 September 2016. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
  4. "Diercke ist Marke des Jahrhunderts" [Diercke is the brand of the century]. Gesamtprogramm der Westermann Gruppe (in German). Archived from the original on 1 April 2018. Retrieved 19 March 2018.

Websites for the active Diercke imprint at Westermann Gruppe:


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