Alexander Supan
Alexander Supan (born March 3, 1847 in Innichen , Tyrol , † July 7, 1920 in Breslau ) was an Austrian geographer .
Life
Alexander Supan was born in 1847 as the younger brother of Josef Suppan . After studying in Graz and Vienna , Supan became a teacher at the secondary school in Laibach in 1871 . From 1875 to 1877 he went again to Graz , Halle (Saale) and Leipzig to prepare for the academic subject . In 1877, Supan worked as a teacher at the Imperial and Royal High School in Chernivtsi and as a private lecturer at the Franz Joseph University . In 1884 she appointed him professor of geography . In the same year he also took over the publication of Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen , for which he founded the useful geographical literature reports in 1885. He served as editor for 25 years. In 1909 he moved to the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University , where he was professor of geography until 1916.
In 1886 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . In 1904 he received the Cothenius Medal of the Leopoldina.
Works
Fonts
- Geography textbook for Austrian secondary schools . Laibach 1874.
- Statistics of the lower air currents . Leipzig 1881.
- Basics of physical geography . Leipzig 1884.
- Archive for Economic Geography . (Part 1: North America 1880–1885).
- The distribution of precipitation on the solid surface of the earth . Gotha 1898.
- Territorial development of the European colonies: with a colonial-historical atlas of 12 maps and 40 small cards in the text . Gotha 1906.
- German school geography . Gotha 1910
- Guidelines of general political geography . Leipzig 1918
- Prof. Dr. A. Supan's German school geography . Gotha 1925–1936 (2 parts)
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Supan, Alexander Georg . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 40th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1880, p. 328 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Supan Alexander Georg. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 14, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2012–,ISBN 978-3-7001-7312-0, p. 51.
Web links
- Literature by and about Alexander Supan in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary in the Monthly Weather Review , October 1920 ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (PDF; 275 kB)
- ↑ Member entry of Alexander Supan at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 22, 2016.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Supan, Alexander |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian geographer |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1847 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Innichen , Tyrol |
DATE OF DEATH | July 7, 1920 |
Place of death | Wroclaw |