“ Asia Minor was an area in which he took particular interest. He visited it four times in 1841–1888; and his first map (1843–1846) , together with his Karte des osmanischen Reiches in Asien (1844 and 1869) , formed the highest authority for the geography of the region. Kiepert was professor of geography in the university of Berlin from 1854. He died at Berlin on the 21st of April 1899. ”