August Wolkenhauer

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Photo of August Wolkenhauer as a student in Göttingen in 1896

August Wolkenhauer (born March 8, 1877 in Bremen , † February 25, 1915 in Fontaine la Mitte in the Argonne ) was a German geographer , cartography historian and university professor in Göttingen .

biography

Wolkenhauer was the son of the geographer and teacher Professor Wilhelm Wolkenhauer (1845–1922). He graduated from the Alte Gymnasium Bremen by 1896 and studied mathematics and natural sciences at the University of Göttingen , the University of Munich and the University of Bonn . In Göttingen, Wolkenhauer became a member of the association and later fraternity of Holzminda in the summer semester of 1896 . In Göttingen he studied mathematics and physics and devoted himself to geography under the influence of Hermann Wagner . In 1903 he received his doctorate . Until his habilitation from 1904 to 1911 he was Wagner's assistant for many years at the geographic seminar at the University of Göttingen. In 1911 he had as a lecturer , a professor at the University of Rostock held.

Wolkenhauer was also a private lecturer in Göttingen from 1909 and was appointed Göttingen university professor in 1915, shortly before his death.

At the First World War Wolkenhauer participated as a sergeant of Infantry and fell in part on 25 February 1915 as a lieutenant of the Landwehr and company commander in the Reserve Infantry Regiment 91 in Argonne Forest.

Wolkenhauer's work is in the field of the history of cartography. He was the main contributor to the nascent historical atlas of Lower Saxony, and on several major library trips he collected the material for a facsimile atlas of the oldest maps of Germany (especially from 1478 to 1513). He became known through his research on the maps of Sebastian Münster and Erhard Etzlaub .

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • About the oldest travel maps of Germany from the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th century. From: Deutsche Geographische Blätter, XXVI., 1903, H. 3 u. 4. Bremen, 1903.
  • Contributions to the history of cartography and nautical science from the 15th to 17th centuries. Göttingen, 1904, dissertation.
  • The Nuremberg cartographer Erhard Etzlaub. In: German geographical sheets. 30, Bremen, 1907, pp. 1-23. Reprint: Acta Cartographica 20 (1975), pp. 504-526.
  • Sebastian Münster's handwritten college book from the years 1515 - 1518 and his maps (Cod. Lat. 10691 of the Royal Court and State Library in Munich). Treatises of the Royal Society of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class; NF, 11.3. Berlin, 1909.
  • The Koblenz fragments of two handwritten maps of Germany from the 15th century. From: Nachrichten der K. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen: Philological-historical class 1910.

literature

  • Leopoldina. Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. Halle, year 1915, issue 51, p. 64.
  • Lower Saxony images of life. Hildesheim 1960, volume 22, part 4, p. 349 ff.
  • Martin Fimpel: Special inventory on the history of mathematics and natural sciences at the University of Göttingen from 1880-1933. Göttingen, 2002, pp. 124-125.
  • Detlef Busse: Commitment or withdrawal? Göttingen natural sciences in the First World War. Göttingen, 2008, p. 218.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Ebel : The register of the Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen 1837-1900. Hildesheim 1974. (No. 68661, registered on April 4, 1896 & No. 70985, registered on October 24, 1898)
  2. ^ Wilhelm Ebel : Catalogus Professorum Gottingensium 1734–1962 . Göttingen 1962, p. 147 Ph 7 375.

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personal data
SURNAME Wolkenhauer, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer, cartography historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1915
Place of death Fontaine la Mitte in the Argonne