Richard Kiepert studied
geography and
history in
Berlin and
Heidelberg. In 1870, he traveled in
Palestine and
Asia Minor, returning to take part in the
Franco-Prussian War. In 1874, he received his
doctorate of philosophy at the
University of Jena. Kiepert prepared maps from data amassed by German explorers of Africa that included
Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs (1831–1896) and
Heinrich Barth (1821–1865). Two important African geographic works of his were
Deutscher Kolonialatlas and
Spezialkarte von Deutsch-Ostafrika. From 1874 until 1878 he worked on the compilation of
Ferdinand von Richthofen's atlas of China, and from 1875 to 1887, he was editor of the geographical periodical
Globus. From 1902 until 1908 he worked on the
Spezialkarte von Kleinasien, a map of
Asia Minor that was created on a 1:400,000 scale. After his father's death in 1899, he continued the work on the elder Kiepert's classic
Formae Orbis Antiqui. In 1908 Kiepert was the recipient of the
Carl Ritter Medal of the Geographical Society of Berlin, and in 1913 was given the honorary title of professor. ==References==