sentences:  Emil von Sydow
  
  Emil von Sydow (July 15, 1812 – October 13, 1873) was a German geographer and cartographer born in Freiberg, Saxony.Prior to 1843 he was a geography instructor at the military academy in Erfurt, afterwards being appointed as a member of the "Ober- Militär-Examinationscommission" in Berlin.