Emil Deckert
Friedrich Karl Emil Deckert (born February 26, 1848 in Taucha ; † October 1, 1916 in Dornholzhausen ) was Professor of Geography at the Academy for Social and Commercial Sciences and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .
Life
Deckert was primarily an economic geographer , long years of wandering (1884–85 and 1891–99) in North America made him the best expert on this part of the world among German geographers; as such he created his splendid geography of North America (1894, 1904, 1913). In 1887 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
Writings and works (selection)
- On the basic geographic requirements of the main railways of world traffic , dissertation, Leipzig 1883 ( digitized version )
- Trade and Transport Geography , 1882, 1885, 1902, 1908
- The New World , 1892
- Colonial empires and objects of colonization of the present , 1885
- Cuba , 1899
- North America , 1894, 1904, 1913 (volume from Sievers ' Allgemeine Länderkunde )
- Germanic America , 1911
- The countries of North America in their economic-geographic equipment , 1916
- Pan- Latinism , Pan-Slavism and Panteutonism in their significance for the political world situation , 1914
- The British Empire , 1916
literature
- Hans Roemer: Deckert, Friedrich Karl Emil. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 549 ( digitized version ).
- Heinz Peter Brogiato: Deckert, Friedrich Karl Emil . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
Web links
- Literature by and about Emil Deckert in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Member entry by Karl Friedrich Emil Deckert at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 13, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Deckert, Emil |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Deckert, Friedrich Karl Emil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1848 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Taucha |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 1, 1916 |
| Place of death | Dornholzhausen (Bad Homburg) |