GROLL, Max. Der Atlantische Ozean / der Stille Ozean / der I - Lot 26

GROLL, Max. Der Atlantische Ozean / der Stille Ozean / der Indische Ozean. Berlin, 1912. 1120 x 920 mm. Three folio chromolithographed maps of which 2 double sheet maps. Three bathymetric maps depicting the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, prepared by Max Groll at the Institute of Oceanography, University of Berlin, at a scale of 1:40,000,000. Max Groll attended the secondary Wagnerschool in Leipzig-Reudnitz and then trained as a design manufacturer at the Wagner & Debes geographical institute in Leipzig from 1892 to 1896. From 1896 to 1898 he was an employee of the Russian edition of the great hand centre of Ernst Debes, of the publishing house Adolf Fyodorovich Marks in St. Petersburg. From 1899, Groll worked in Switzerland with Kümmerly+Frey in Bern, where he also held a university degree in Bern, which he continued at the University of Vienna and the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin. After Ferdinand von Richthofen had brought him to the Institute and Museum of Marine Science in the Department of Geographical Sciences as a cartographer in 1902, he also took on teaching duties from 1903 and, after his doctorate in 1904 in Bern, he also worked as an editor for cartography at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin from 1907 onwards, which is now considered a decisive milestone for the beginning of modern cartographic university.