Historical reference: Do not rely on this information. It is very old. About this collection
Behm, Dr. Ernst, geographer, was born in 1830, at Gotha. At first chief assistant in the editorship of the Mittheilungen, a geographical periodical, he became, in 1878, editor himself on Dr. Petermann's death. He also commenced in 1872 a statistical supplement to the Mittheilungen, and in 1876 became the statistician for the Almanack de Gotha. He died in 1884 in his native town.