General geography

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Bellacoola Indians, from the first edition of General Area Studies, Volume America (1895).

The Allgemeine Länderkunde was published from 1891 to 1935 by the Bibliographisches Institut in five editions. For several decades it was the international standard work on geography .

The editor and main author was Wilhelm Sievers (1860–1921), Professor of Geography in Giessen . Staff were other prominent geographers of the time, especially Alfred Philippson ( Bern / Bonn ), Willy Kükenthal ( Breslau / Berlin ), Friedrich Hahn ( Königsberg ) and Emil Deckert ( Frankfurt am Main / Berlin). After the First World War and Sievers' death, a final edition in a smaller format was published in 1924–32.

expenditure

  • First edition in five volumes , 1891–95
  • Second edition in six volumes , 1901–05
  • Small edition in two volumes , 1907
  • Third edition in six volumes , 1914 (due to the outbreak of war this became an incomplete edition)
  • Third / fourth edition , 1924–32 ( "Allgemeine Länderkunde, founded by W. Sievers" )