Alfred Berg

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Alfred Berg (born March 24, 1876 in Halberstadt , † February 9, 1945 in Jena ) was a German educator and writer.

Life

After studying geography, geology, history and New Languages at the University of Halle , where he in 1901 to Dr. phil. PhD, was Berg u. a. worked as a teacher at the higher state schools in Sondershausen . For a time he worked as a freelance writer. In 1919 he received a position as a teacher for the subject of natural sciences at the Protestant Realgymnasium in Bad Frankenhausen , where he also taught at the Kyffhäuser technical center.

Alfred Berg became director of the newly founded District Home Museum in Bad Frankenhausen and was very intensively involved with cave research.

He died in an air raid in the reading room of the university library in Jena.

Works (selection)

  • Introduction to dealing with geology . G. Fischer, Jena 1909 (2nd edition 1921)
  • Geology for everyone . Thomas, Leipzig 1912.
  • Asia. Country and people (= world and knowledge library , 5). Oestergaard, Berlin-Schöneberg 1913.
  • Geographical hiking book . Teubner, Leipzig / Berlin 1914.
  • The German colonies. [Hillger's Illustrated Folk Books; 54] Berlin, HIllger o. J. [1910].
  • Africa. Country and people (= world and knowledge library , 10). Oestergaard, Berlin-Schöneberg [1915].
  • Scientific hiking book for the North Sea and the North Sea coast . Thomas, Leipzig 1915.
  • The Harz Caves , construction and image of the Kyffhäuser Mountains and The Barbarossa Cave in Kyffhäuser . (In: Harz and Kyffhäuser. Ein Heimatbuch , edited by F. Brather and K.Lütge, Brandstetter, Leipzig o. J. [1926])

literature

  • M. Brust: Alfred Berg (1876-1945) and Friedrich Stolberg (1892-1975) - their services to the exploration of the Zechstein caves of the southern Harz and the Kyffhauser (In: Fundgrube , XXIX, 3/4, pp. 112-115), Berlin 1993.
  • Gunter Braniek: Dr. Alfred Berg - geoscientist, local researcher and founder of the Bad Frankenhausen District Home Museum. Appreciation of his life's work on the occasion of his 130th birthday on March 24, 2006 and bibliography (In: Contributions to the Kyffhäuser landscape . Publications of the Regional Museum Bad Frankenhausen , Issue 20, pp. 5-37), Bad Frankenhausen 2006.

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personal data
SURNAME Berg, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Halberstadt
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1945
Place of death Jena