Henry Scharbau

Henry Scharbau (1822-1902) or Henry Sharbau was a British cartographer .

Biography[]

Scharbau was born at Luebeck in North Germany in 1822, but came to England in his youth. Due to his skills in surveying and draughtsmanship, firstly in work on the Ordnance Survey of the south of Scotland, and between 1858 and 1864 in the Admiralty Surveys in the Hebrides and some western lochs. In 1865 he was appointed temporary assistant in the Hydrographic Office, a post he held until 1874. In 1873, Scharbau became a naturalized British subject.^{[citation needed]}

In 1877 he worked as a draughtsman for the Home Office until his work as chief draughtsman under the Royal Geographical Society in April 1881.^[1] One notable map Scharbau created a Lithographic map of Tibet, compiled from his own and traveller accounts under the superintendence of General Walker, and first published by the Society in 1894. In 1902 his wife died, and Scharbau would die the same year.^[2]

References[]

External links[]

• Scharbau maps at LOC.gov