Albert Herrmann (geographer)

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Albert Herrmann (born January 20, 1886 in Hanover , † April 19, 1945 in Pilsen ) was a German geography historian . His specialties were the ancient geography of the Mediterranean and Chinese geography.

Life

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Albert Herrmann, the son of the high school director privy councilor Konrad Herrmann (1844–1910), attended the royal high school in Lingen on the Ems , which his father ran. After graduation (1904) he studied history, geography and German at the universities of Göttingen and Berlin (winter semester 1906/1907). Herrmann received most of the suggestions during his studies from the geographer Hermann Wagner . In 1909 he was in Göttingen with a study on the course of the Silk Road to the Dr. phil. PhD . The following year he passed the state examination for the higher teaching post.

After the seminar year at the Kaiserin-Augusta-Viktoria-Gymnasium in Linden and the probationary year at the Goethe-Gymnasium and the Bismarckschule in Hanover, Herrmann deepened his studies at the Oriental Seminar of the Berlin University, where he obtained the diploma for Oriental languages ​​in 1915. During the First World War he was not drafted because he was found unfit during the draft. From October 7, 1915 Herrmann worked as a scientific assistant teacher at the Leibniz-Oberrealschule in Charlottenburg . A year later he was employed as a senior teacher.

In addition to his school service, Herrmann devoted himself to scientific studies. He became a member of the Geographical Society of Berlin and the German Oriental Society . In 1923 he completed his habilitation at the Berlin University for historical geography and has held lectures ever since. On October 1, 1933, he was retired and left school. At the university he was appointed adjunct professor in 1934. On April 1, 1939, his teaching assignment was expanded to include historical geography of the Mediterranean countries in antiquity and the Far East .

Herrmann's achievement as a geography historian is particularly in the field of Chinese geography, on which he published fundamental research. The best known work is the Historical and Commercial Atlas of China (1935), which was in use worldwide. His theses on the localization of the ancient sites Atlantis (in North Africa) and Tartessos (in Chott el Djerid ) were viewed by experts as eccentric and largely rejected.

Fonts (selection)

Map with explorations of new routes to India and China 1486–1616 in Herrmann's Atlas of China, 1935
  • The ancient silk roads between China and Syria. From the second book: Central Asia after Ssĕma-Tsi'en and in the annals of the Han dynasty . Göttingen 1910 (dissertation)
  • The ancient silk roads between China and Syria. Contributions to the ancient geography of Asia . Berlin 1910 ( sources and research on ancient history and geography 21; extended dissertation). Reprinted in 1977
  • Ancient geography of the lower Oxus region . Berlin 1914
  • The traffic routes between China, India and Rome around 100 AD. Birth . Leipzig 1922
  • Marco Polo : At the court of the great khans. Travels in High Asia and China . Leipzig 1924. New edition Leipzig 1949. 2nd edition, Leipzig 1951
  • Odysseus' wanderings . Berlin 1926
  • The earth map of the Urbible: With an appendix on the Tartessos and Etruscan questions . Braunschweig 1931
  • Lou-lan: China, India and Rome in the light of the excavations at Lobnor . Leipzig 1931
    • Japanese translation by Matsuda Hisao: Rô-ran: Ryûsha ni umoreta ôto . Tokyo 1969
  • Our ancestors and Atlantis . Berlin 1934. Reprint Steinkirchen 1985
  • Historical and commercial Atlas of China . Cambridge and Leipzig 1935
  • The land of silk and Tibet in the light of antiquity . Leipzig 1938. Reprinted in Amsterdam 1968
  • The oldest maps from Germany to Gerhard Mercator . Leipzig 1940

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  1. ↑ See, for example, the total review of the book "Our Ahnen und Atlantis" by Bolko Frhr. von Richthofen , in: Mannus 26, 1934, pp. 252-259.
personal data
SURNAME Herrmann, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herrmann, Albert Adolf Ludwig Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geography historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1945
Place of death Pilsen