Alfred Kirchhoff
Alfred Kirchhoff (23 May 1838 in Erfurt – 8 February 1907 in Mockau) was a German geographer and naturalist.
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Biography
He was educated at Jena and Bonn, and for several years was an instructor at schools in Mülheim an der Ruhr and Erfurt. From 1871 to 1873 he was a lecturer on geography at the Kriegsakademie of Berlin, and in the latter year was appointed to the chair of geography in the University of Halle.[1] He was an editor of the Anleitung zur deutschen Landes- und Volksforschung.
He was elected member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1878[2] and of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg in 1888.[3]
Selected writings
- Schulbotanik (1865) – School botany.
- Die Südseeinseln und der Südseehandel, 1880 – The South Sea islands and trade.
- Schulgeographie, 1882 – School geography.
- Allgemeine Erdkunde: Pflanzen- und Tierverbreitung, with Julius von Hann and Eduard Bruckner (1899) – General geography; plant and animal distribution.[4]
- Mensch und Erde; Skizzen von den Wechselbeziehungen zwischen beiden (3rd edition 1910); later translated into English as "Man and earth; the reciprocal relations and influences of man and his environment"; London, G. Routledge & sons, limited (1914).
- Unser Wissen von der Erde. Allgemeine Erdkunde und Länderkunde, in collaboration with other scholars (1886–93) – Our knowledge of the Earth. General and regional geography.
- Volapük : easy method of acquiring the universal language (constructed by Johann Martin Schleyer, prepared for the English-speaking public on the basis of Alfred Kirchhoff's "Hilfsbuch"; with the addition of a key to the exercises and a Volapük-English and English-Volapük vocabulary, by Klas August Linderfelt).[5]
Notes
- Brockhaus' konversations-lexikon, Volume 10
- "Mitgliederverzeichnis" (in German). Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften. Retrieved 2018-09-16.
- Westrin, Theodor, ed. (1911). Nordisk familjebok. 14. p. 136.
- Allgemeine Erdkunde: Abt. Pflanzen- und Tierverbreitung Google Books
- HathiTrust Digital Library published works
References
- Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
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