Alexander von Danckelman

Alexander Sylvester Flavius Ernst Freiherr von Danckelman , also Danckelmann , (born November 24, 1855 in Gordemitz , † December 30, 1919 in Schwerin ) was a German geographer and meteorologist.

Life

He is the son of the Prussian captain Ludwig Freiherr von Danckelman (born January 11, 1822) and Flavie von Schütz (born March 23, 1823 - November 29, 1855), who died as a result of his birth. His grandfather was the district administrator William Freiherr von Danckelmann .

As a Privy Councilor, Alexander participated in several expeditions, including to the Russian Arctic Ocean to find the Vega and from 1882 to 1884 to the lower reaches of the Congo and Angola. After his return he worked as general secretary of the international polar commission at the Seewarte in Hamburg (1884/1885) and - also as general secretary - for the Society for Geography Berlin (1885-1889) and as a scientific adviser and advisor to the colonial administration of the Foreign Office (1890 -1902). In 1898 he was the representative of the German Empire when the Congo Railway opened .

In 1888 he founded the scientific colonial-geographic journal Mittheilungen von Forschungsreisen and scholars from the German protected areas (from 1907 messages from the German protected areas ).

family

He married Eva Maria Marx (1862–1917) in Berlin in 1887 , a daughter of the Bonn businessman Jakob Marx (1812–1885) and Louise Hansemann , who was a daughter of the Prussian Finance Minister David Hansemann († 1864). The couple had a son and a daughter.

Fonts

The meteorological observations of the Güßfeldtschen Loango expedition , Leipzig 1878.
Rain, hail and thunderstorm in the Indian Ocean. According to the meteorological ship journals of the Deutsche Seewarte along with remarks about the geographical distribution of thunderstorms and hail in general. In: From the archive of the Deutsche Seewarte , 1880 III. Jg., Hammerich & Lesser, Hamburg 1880, No. 2. (At the same time: Phil. Diss., Leipzig).

Collaboration on:

Geographical manual for Andrée’s hand atlas with special consideration of commercial, statistical and political conditions. Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld / Leipzig 1882.

literature

Karl Keil: Danckelman, Alexander Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 502 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Wikisource: From the archive of the Deutsche Seewarte - sources and full texts

[1] In: Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon (1920), Volume I, p. 284.

Individual evidence

↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of baronial houses, volume 19, p.148
↑ Beatrix Hoffmann: The museum object as an object of exchange and trade. On the change in the meaning of museum objects in the context of the sales from the collections of the Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin . Lit, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-11313-9 , p. 161, footnote 36.

personal data
SURNAME	Danckelman, Alexander von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Danckelmann, Alexander Freiherr von; Danckelman, Alexander Sylvester Flavius Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German geographer and meteorologist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 24, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gordemitz near Eilenburg
DATE OF DEATH	December 30, 1919
Place of death	Schwerin

[1] Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of baronial houses, volume 19, p.148

[2] Beatrix Hoffmann: The museum object as an object of exchange and trade. On the change in the meaning of museum objects in the context of the sales from the collections of the Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin . Lit, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-11313-9 , p. 161, footnote 36.