Karl Eduard Meinicke

Carl Eduard Meinicke, 1868

Karl Eduard Meinicke (born August 31, 1803 in Brandenburg an der Havel , † August 26, 1876 in Dresden ) was a German geographer .

Life

Karl Eduard Meinicke had been working at the grammar school in Prenzlau since 1825 , the direction of which he was provisionally transferred in 1846 and permanently transferred in 1852, and lived in Dresden since 1869, after he retired.

Meinicke was one of the most profound experts on the Polynesian island world.

Fonts

• Attempt at a history of the European colonies in the West Indies. Weimar 1831 ( online ).
• Contributions to the ethnography of Asia. Prenzlau 1837.
• Mainland Australia. 2 volumes, Penzlau 1837.
  • First part
  • Second part
• The South Sea peoples and Christianity , Penzlau 1844 ( online ).
• The islands of the Pacific. 2 volumes, Leipzig 1875–76.
  • First part: Melanesia and New Zealand (1875)
  • Part Two: Polynesia and Micronesia (1876)

literature

• Sophus Ruge : Carl E. Meinicke. A biographical sketch. In: XV. Annual report of the Geography Association in Dresden. Scientific part. A. Huhle, Dresden 1878, pp. 56-85 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Uta Lindgren :  Meinicke, Carl Eduard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 673 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Friedrich Ratzel :  Meinicke, Carl Eduard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 237 f.

Footnotes

1. ↑ Meinicke, Karl Eduard. (No longer available online.) In: Prenzlau through the ages. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; Retrieved November 3, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

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