Alexander Supan

Alexander Supan in 1883

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

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  Distribution of ups and downs of the earth

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  Spread of glaciers and drift ice in 1896

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  Annual isotherms in 1896

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  January isotherms in 1896

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  July isotherms in 1896

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

Wikisource: Alexander Supan  - Sources and full texts

Commons : Alexander Georg Supan  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Alexander Supan in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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) 
2. ↑ Member entry of Alexander Supan at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 22, 2016.