Wagner received his education at the Universities of Göttingen and Erlangen, and from 1864 to 1876, taught classes in mathematics and natural history at the Ernestine Gymnasium, Gotha.[1] When the Freies Deutsches Hochstift (Free German Foundation was founded in 1859, Wagner was one of its 56 founding members.[2]
In 1868, Wagner began work for the publishing firm Justus Perthes as an editor in the statistical section of the Gothaer Almanack.[3][4] Beginning in 1872, with Ernst Behm, he was editor of the geographical/statistical review Die Bevolkerung der Erde.[5]
In 1883–84, he published a new edition of Hermann Guthe'sLehrbuch der Geographie. He is also associated with the Sydow-Wagner Methodischer Schulatlas,[7] a school atlas that is named in conjunction with cartographer Emil von Sydow.[8][9]
References
^Wolfgang Böhm, “Hermann Wagner und die Geographie an der Universität zu Königsberg” in Jahrbuch der Albertus Universität zu Königsberg, vol. XXIV (1974, reissued by Duncker & Humblot, 2020), pp. 196–202
^Lerner, Franz (1960). "Die ersten Mitglieder des Freien Deutschen Hochstifts". Archiv für Frankfurts Geschichte und Kunst. 47: 63–74.
^ abDickinson, Robert E. (2014). "Hermann Wagner". The Makers of Modern Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography). Taylor & Francis. ISBN978-1-317-90733-6.